{"id":1019,"date":"2018-05-07T20:44:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-07T20:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2018\/05\/07\/tx-attorney-general-opinion-what-you-need-to-know-about-the-constitution-tollroad-funding-the-2019-legislative-fix\/"},"modified":"2018-05-07T20:44:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-07T20:44:00","slug":"tx-attorney-general-opinion-what-you-need-to-know-about-the-constitution-tollroad-funding-the-2019-legislative-fix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/tx-attorney-general-opinion-what-you-need-to-know-about-the-constitution-tollroad-funding-the-2019-legislative-fix\/","title":{"rendered":"TX Attorney General Opinion. What you Need to Know about the Constitution &#038; Tollroad Funding. The 2019 legislative fix."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The question the Texas Attorney General Answered:<\/strong>\u00a0whether the Texas Transportation Commission\u00a0may use\u00a0Proposition 1 and Proposition 7 funds on toll projects.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What complicated the question &amp; answer:<\/strong>\u00a0That roads in Texas are often mixed, partially free and partially tolled.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why do roads that have tolled and free lanes make the answer more complicated?<\/strong>\u00a0There is no guidance in statute and no guidance in case law for whether a &#8220;toll road&#8221; and &#8220;toll project&#8221; are the same and thus the constitutional funding ban applies.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What would clarify this in 2019 legislation:<\/strong>\u00a0A definition of &#8220;toll project&#8221; as a &#8220;toll road&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>What wiggle room is there?<\/strong>\u00a0The use of funds for non-tolled\u00a0roads \u00a0within a toll project, with a mechanism that ensures that the funds are spent for their constitutional purpose.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.texasattorneygeneral.gov\/opinions\/opinions\/51paxton\/op\/2018\/kp0197.pdf?utm_content=&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_name=&amp;utm_source=govdelivery&amp;utm_term=\">KP-0197 (2018)<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The question the Texas Attorney General Answered:<\/strong>\u00a0whether the Texas Transportation Commission\u00a0may use\u00a0Proposition 1 and Proposition 7 funds on toll projects.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What complicated the question &amp; answer:<\/strong>\u00a0That roads in Texas are often mixed, partially free and partially tolled.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why do roads that have tolled and free lanes make the answer more complicated?<\/strong>\u00a0There is no guidance in statute and no guidance in case law for whether a &#8220;toll road&#8221; and &#8220;toll project&#8221; are the same and thus the constitutional\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,22,8,10,5,6,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2019-issue","category-attorney-general","category-funding","category-legislative-trend","category-roads","category-tollroad","category-txdot","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}