{"id":1119,"date":"2018-09-26T22:25:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-26T22:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2018\/09\/26\/campaign-trend-texas-talk-dedicating-severance-tax-to-the-permian-basin-4-key-points-to-the-plan\/"},"modified":"2018-09-26T22:25:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-26T22:25:00","slug":"campaign-trend-texas-talk-dedicating-severance-tax-to-the-permian-basin-4-key-points-to-the-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/campaign-trend-texas-talk-dedicating-severance-tax-to-the-permian-basin-4-key-points-to-the-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Campaign TREND. Texas Talk. Dedicating Severance Tax to the Permian Basin. 4 Key Points to the plan."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State Representative Landgraf proposes a change to transportation funding to help rural west Texas that includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Let oil producing areas retain a small percentage of severance taxes\n<ul>\n<li>The Rainy Day Fund has $11 Billion balance<\/li>\n<li>$7-$8 billion is the standard for emergencies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Dedicate the severance tax revenue &#8220;to the region where it\u2019s generated&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>The dedicated revenue would pay for:\u00a0\n<ul>\n<li>adequate infrastructure<\/li>\n<li>first responders<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;save lives and allow commerce to travel more freely&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oaoa.com\/news\/government\/state_government\/article_1c1ada94-c069-11e8-89fd-9fa4a68ac301.html\">Odessa American |\u00a0<strong>Landgraf talks goals for legislative session<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State Representative Landgraf proposes a change to transportation funding to help rural west Texas that includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Let oil producing areas retain a small percentage of severance taxes\n<ul>\n<li>The Rainy Day Fund has $11 Billion balance<\/li>\n<li>$7-$8 billion is the standard for emergencies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Dedicate the severance tax revenue &#8220;to the region where it\u2019s generated&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>The dedicated revenue would pay for:\u00a0\n<ul>\n<li>adequate infrastructure<\/li>\n<li>first responders<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;save lives and allow commerce to travel more freely&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oaoa.com\/news\/government\/state_government\/article_1c1ada94-c069-11e8-89fd-9fa4a68ac301.html\">Odessa\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,13,8,10,12,5,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2019-issue","category-campaign-trend","category-funding","category-legislative-trend","category-local","category-roads","category-transportation-safety","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119","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=1119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}