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5 Document(s) [ Subject: Parking facilities ]
Committee: | House Transportation | |
Title: | Interim Report | |
Library Catalog Title: | House Committee on Transportation, Texas House of Representatives interim report, 2008 : a report to the House of Representatives, 81st Texas Legislature | |
Subjects: | Buses | Driver licenses | Driver Responsibility Program | Emergency medical services | Enhanced driver licenses | Graduated driver licenses | High-occupancy vehicle lanes | Homeland security | Identity requirements | Metropolitan areas | Parking facilities | Persons with disabilities | Railroad tracks | Rural areas | Teenage drivers | Traffic | Traffic safety | Trans-Texas Corridor | Transportation planning | Trauma Facilty/EMS account | Uninsured motorists | | |
Library Call Number: | L1836.80 T687 | |
Session: | 80th R.S. (2007) | |
Online version: | View report [71 pages File size: 8,336 kb] | |
Charges: | This report should address the charges below. | |
1. | Research and make recommendations to the legislature on programs to improve safety for teen drivers. | |
2. | Study the concept of using corridor planning organizations to provide a mechanism for local involvement in the Trans-Texas Corridor. | |
3. | Study and make recommendations for funding mechanisms for the Rail Relocation Fund. | |
4. | Study and make recommendations regarding the feasibility of a motor bus-only lane program for state highways in Texas that focuses on the use of improved shoulders as a low-speed bypass of congested highway lanes. Examine comparable laws form other states that allow transit buses to operate on state highway shoulders. | |
5. | Examine the role of metropolitan planning authorities in state law, as well as the creation of rural planning authorities to address the planning needs outside of metropolitan planning organizations but within council of government boundaries. | |
6. | Study and make recommendations for changes to statutes regarding handicapped parking. | |
7. | Review the effectiveness of the Driver Responsibility Program and provide recommendations for increasing the collection rate of assessed penalties. Provide recommendations for amnesty and incentive programs established by the passage of SB 1723, 80th R.S.. Examine the status of Texas' current statewide trauma system infrastructure and how the system may be optimized to meet future trauma care needs in a rapidly growing state with overburdened emergency rooms. (Joint Interim Charge with the House Committee on Public Health.) | |
8. | Review the current requirements for driver's license and identification card holders in Texas in order to recommend legislative measures to prevent these documents from being used to further criminal activities, and recommend ways to enhance homeland security. (Joint Interim Charge with House Committee on Defense Affairs and State-Federal Relations.) | |
9. | Monitor the continued implementation of the Texas Financial Responsibility Verification Program authorized by SB 1670, 79th R.S., and determine whether any further statutory enhancements are needed to reduce the number of uninsured motorists in Texas. (Joint Interim Charge with the House Committee on Insurance.) | |
10. | Monitor the agencies and programs under the committee's jurisdiction. | |
Supporting documents | ||
Committee: | House Parking and Traffic | |
Title: | Transcript, date unknown | |
Library Catalog Title: | Minutes | |
Library Call Number: | L1836.61 P229M 1st | |
Session: | 61st R.S. (1969) | |
Online version: | View document [26 pages File size: 11,411 kb] | |
Committee: | House Parking and Traffic | |
Title: | Transcript, May 14, 1970 | |
Library Catalog Title: | Minutes | |
Library Call Number: | L1836.61 P229M 5/14/70 | |
Session: | 61st R.S. (1969) | |
Online version: | View document [38 pages File size: 18,492 kb] | |
Committee: | House Parking and Traffic | |
Title: | Transcript, October 13, 1970 | |
Library Catalog Title: | Minutes | |
Library Call Number: | L1836.61 P229M 10/13/70 | |
Session: | 61st R.S. (1969) | |
Online version: | View document [13 pages File size: 21,527 kb] | |
Committee: | House Parking Space Around the Capitol | |
Title: | Interim Report | |
Library Catalog Title: | House Interim Committee to Study and Provide Parking Space Around the Capitol. | |
Subjects: | Parking facilities | Texas State Capitol | | |
Library Call Number: | L1836.57 p229 | |
Session: | 57th R.S. (1961) | |
Online version: | View report [9 pages File size: 424 kb] | |
Charge: | This report should address the charge below. | |
1. | Make a survey of state-owned lands around and near the Capitol and to study the possibility of converting a portion of said lands for use as parking lots. |
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