• TxDOT Funding:
- Monitor any new & anticipated revenue appropriated to TXDOT
- Recommendations that address project prioritization & selection, effectiveness of staffing levels and project delivery methods.
• Vehicle Inspection System
- Evaluate the efficiency & effectiveness of the state’s Vehicle Inspection Program.
- Recommend how to compress/otherwise reduce the number of required inspections.
• Regional Mobility Authorities
- Review State Highway Fund grants & loans to Regional Mobility Authorities
- Recommend if additional oversight procedures are needed to ensure the RMA’s expenditures are a valid and accountable use of State Highway Funds.
• Panama Canal
- Study the demand placed on the state’s ports, roadways and railways resulting from the Panama Canal expansion
- Recommendations that ensure transportation infrastructure is adequate to accommodate increases in imports and exports.
• Driver Responsibility Program:
- Evaluate the necessity of the Driver Responsibility Program
- Recommendations for alternative methods of achieving the programs objectives.
• Oversize/Overweight Vehicle Regulations, Penalties and Fines:
- Review current state and federal regulations, penalties and fines related to oversize and overweight vehicles
- Recommendations to minimize impacts on the state’s roadways and bridges.
• Monitoring Charge:
- Monitor what happeneded during the 84th. Specifically:
- 1) Progress of the Texas Department of Transportation’s efforts to propose a plan to eliminate toll roads;
- 2) Removing eminent domain authority from private toll corporations;
- 3) Ending the issuing of any new debt from the Texas Mobility Fund & prohibiting future use of the TMF on toll projects;
- 4) The Sunset’s review of TXDOT.