{"id":903,"date":"2017-11-10T22:14:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-10T22:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2017\/11\/10\/tx-attorney-general-opinion-request-toll-roads-constitutional-propositions-comingling-funds\/"},"modified":"2017-11-10T22:14:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T22:14:00","slug":"tx-attorney-general-opinion-request-toll-roads-constitutional-propositions-comingling-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/tx-attorney-general-opinion-request-toll-roads-constitutional-propositions-comingling-funds\/","title":{"rendered":"TX Attorney General Opinion Request. Toll Roads+ Constitutional Propositions + Comingling Funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Attorney General Opinion request <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texasattorneygeneral.gov\/opinions\/opinions\/51paxton\/rq\/2017\/pdf\/RQ0192KP.pdf?utm_content=&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_name=&amp;utm_source=govdelivery&amp;utm_term=\">RQ-0192-KP<\/a> asks whether Propositions 1 and 2,\u00a0that prohibited the use of dedicated funds for toll projects, can provide funding for toll road projects.<\/p>\n<p>Update:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2017\/11\/16\/txdot-eyeing-accounting-trick-get-around-prohibition-toll-roads\/\">Texas Tribune |\u00a0TxDOT eyeing accounting trick to get around toll road prohibition<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TXDOT&#8217;s point of view:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>fund\u00a0the tolled lanes with federal loans backed by toll revenues<\/li>\n<li>fund added non-tolled main lanes with tax dollars<\/li>\n<li>win-win: TxDOT has more building capacity with limited funds.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Attorney General Opinion request <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texasattorneygeneral.gov\/opinions\/opinions\/51paxton\/rq\/2017\/pdf\/RQ0192KP.pdf?utm_content=&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_name=&amp;utm_source=govdelivery&amp;utm_term=\">RQ-0192-KP<\/a> asks whether Propositions 1 and 2,\u00a0that prohibited the use of dedicated funds for toll projects, can provide funding for toll road projects.<\/p>\n<p>Update:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2017\/11\/16\/txdot-eyeing-accounting-trick-get-around-prohibition-toll-roads\/\">Texas Tribune |\u00a0TxDOT eyeing accounting trick to get around toll road prohibition<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TXDOT&#8217;s point of view:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>fund\u00a0the tolled lanes with federal loans backed by toll revenues<\/li>\n<li>fund added non-tolled main lanes with tax dollars<\/li>\n<li>win-win: TxDOT has more building capacity with limited funds.<\/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":[22,8,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-attorney-general","category-funding","category-tollroad","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903","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=903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}