{"id":170,"date":"2015-04-23T20:28:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-23T20:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2015\/04\/23\/transportation-funding-3-b-or-2-5b-per-year-to-txdot\/"},"modified":"2015-04-23T20:28:00","modified_gmt":"2015-04-23T20:28:00","slug":"transportation-funding-3-b-or-2-5b-per-year-to-txdot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/transportation-funding-3-b-or-2-5b-per-year-to-txdot\/","title":{"rendered":"Transportation Funding $3 B or $2.5B per year to TXDOT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TXDOT is getting closer to additional funding. The House and Senate transportation proposal both relate to\u00a0sales tax and here&#8217;s the differences:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>House: $3 B of sales tax to TXDOT, the remainder\u00a0to General Revenue sytarting in 2018<\/li>\n<li>House: TXDOT will get 2% of the remaining slaes tax over $3 billion. (the sales tax brings in roughly $25 billion per year)<\/li>\n<li>House plan supported by Chairman Otto according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/transportation\/20150422-bid-to-boost-texas-transportation-funding-gains-momentum-in-house.ece\">Dallas Morning News<\/a>\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>House: a sales tax plan<\/li>\n<li>Senate: motor vehicle sales tax only<\/li>\n<li>Senate plan has the backing of Chairman Nelson<\/li>\n<li>Senate:\u00a0vehicle sales tax revenue transferred to general revenue will\u00a0be capped at $2.5 billion in 2018<\/li>\n<li>Senate: After $2.5 billion to GR,\u00a0\u00a0$2.5 Billion will go\u00a0to TXDOT for non-toll road purposes<\/li>\n<li>Senate: After this $5 billion then\u00a050%\u00a0to transportation, 30%\u00a0to general revenue,\u00a0and 20%\u00a0to education<\/li>\n<li>TXDOT: We need $5Billion per year to maintain the status quo<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TXDOT is getting closer to additional funding. The House and Senate transportation proposal both relate to\u00a0sales tax and here&#8217;s the differences:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>House: $3 B of sales tax to TXDOT, the remainder\u00a0to General Revenue sytarting in 2018<\/li>\n<li>House: TXDOT will get 2% of the remaining slaes tax over $3 billion. (the sales tax brings in roughly $25 billion per year)<\/li>\n<li>House plan supported by Chairman Otto according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/transportat...<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,10,5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funding","category-legislative-trend","category-roads","category-tollroad","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170","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=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}