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18 Document(s) [ Subject: Motor fuels taxes ]

Committee:	House Transportation Funding, Expenditures, and Finance, Select
Title:	Interim Report
Subjects:	Highway finance | Motor fuels taxes | State Highway Fund | Texas Emissions Reduction Plan | Transportation bonds |
Library Call Number:	L1836.83 T686fh
Session:	83rd R.S. (2013)
Online version:	View report [33 pages]
Charge:	This report should address the charge below.
1.	Study the future reliability of current state transportation funding sources, alternatives that may increase available state funding for surface transportation, use of debt financing in state transportation, alternative transportation funding options, current and historic appropriations to the Texas Department of Transportation, use of the state highway fund for other agencies, and the original purpose of the economic stabilization fund.
Committee:	Senate Transportation Funding, Expenditures, and Finance, Select
Title:	Interim Report
Subjects:	Highway finance | Motor fuels taxes | Motor vehicle registration | Texas Emissions Reduction Plan |
Library Call Number:	L1836.83 T686fs
Session:	83rd R.S. (2013)
Online version:	View report [15 pages]
Charge:	This report should address the charge below.
1.	Look at the current state of transportation funding, expenditures and new methods to finance our future transportation needs.
Supporting documents
Committee:	Senate Transportation Funding, Expenditures, and Finance, Select
Title:	Testimony, Whitney Brewster, Texas Department of Motor Vehicles, State Assistance for County Roads, October 9, 2013
Library Catalog Title:	Minutes
Library Call Number:	L1836.83 T686FSM 2013: OCT 9
Session:	83rd R.S. (2013)
Online version:	View document [38 pages  File size: 37,931 kb]
Committee:	House Transportation Funding, Expenditures, and Finance, Select
Title:	Committee meeting handouts and testimony, May 6, 2014 (Motor fuel taxes/gas taxes, highway funding overview)
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Session:	83rd R.S. (2013)
Online version:	View document [95 pages  File size: 6,934 kb]
Committee:	House Transportation Funding, Expenditures, and Finance, Select
Title:	Committee meeting handouts and testimony, August 5, 2014 (Potential revenue sources)
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Session:	83rd R.S. (2013)
Online version:	View document [177 pages  File size: 4,791 kb]
Committee:	House Transportation Funding, Expenditures, and Finance, Select
Title:	Committee meeting handouts and testimony, September 4, 2014 (Texas Department of Transportation, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality)
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Session:	83rd R.S. (2013)
Online version:	View document [87 pages  File size: 3,095 kb]
Committee:	House Transportation Funding, Expenditures, and Finance, Select
Title:	Committee meeting handouts and testimony, October 8, 2014 (Economic Stabilization Fund, Regional Mobility Authorities)
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Session:	83rd R.S. (2013)
Online version:	View document [35 pages  File size: 1,277 kb]
Committee:	House Transportation Funding, Expenditures, and Finance, Select
Title:	Committee meeting handouts and testimony, October 28, 2014 (Funding options for the 84th Legislature)
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Session:	83rd R.S. (2013)
Online version:	View document [4 pages  File size: 73 kb]
Committee:	Senate Infrastructure Development and Security
Title:	Interim Report - Transportation
Library Catalog Title:	Senate Committee on Infrastructure Development and Security report to the 79th Legislature : transportation.
Subjects:	Automobile insurance | Driver Responsibility Program | Emergency medical services | Federal funds | Highway construction | Highway finance | Highway planning | Motor fuels taxes | Regional mobility authorities | Texas Mobility Fund | Toll roads | Traffic violations | Trans-Texas Corridor | Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century | Transportation planning |
Library Call Number:	L1836.78 In5t
Session:	78th R.S. (2003)
Online version:	View report [74 pages  File size: 708 kb]
Charges:	This report should address the charges below.
1.	Study the implementation and make recommendations to enhance the effectiveness of HB 3588, 78th R.S., relating to the construction, acquisition, financing, maintenance, management, operation, ownership, and control of transportation facilities including, but not limited to, multimodal transportation and the progress, improvement, policing, and safety of transportation in Texas. Monitor and report on the adequacy and use of the trauma care funds generated as a result of the legislation and make recommendations for improving the funding of trauma care services.
2.	Study the proof of financial responsibility verification program administered by Texas Department of Insurance and the Department of Public Safety and make recommendations for improving compliance by drivers in Texas.
3.	Study and make recommendations for innovative approaches to highway construction and maintenance. Focus on recommendations for streamlining Texas Department of Transportation operations, including methods of expediting permitting procedures while maintaining environmental safeguards. Examine and make recommendations for regional options for increasing financing, including, but not limited to, the creation of a local option motor fuels tax.
4.	Evaluate and make recommendations relating to funding allocations for TransTexas Corridor projects. Monitor and report on the status of the projects, including their impact on local, regional, and state transportation.
5.	Study the federal re-authorization of TEA-21. Analyze and make recommendations relating to the impact of re-authorization on transportation in Texas, including an assessment of state plans and programs for implementing any required changes.
Committee:	Senate Finance
Title:	Interim Report - Motor fuel tax
Library Catalog Title:	Senate Finance Committee Interim Subcommittee on the Implementation of Senate Bill 1547 from the 76th Legislature : motor fuel tax collections.
Subjects:	Motor fuels taxes | Tax revenue |
Library Call Number:	L1836.76 f49mf
Session:	76th R.S. (1999)
Online version:	View report [121 pages  File size: 5,356 kb]
Charge:	This report should address the charge below.
1.	Monitor the implementation of SB 1547, 76th R.S. relating to motor fuel tax collection improvements, especially the impact of the bill on state motor fuel tax revenue.
Committee:	Senate State Affairs
Title:	Charge 1 Intermodal transportation
Library Catalog Title:	Senate Committee on State Affairs report to the 77th Legislature : charge 1, intermodal transportation.
Subjects:	GARVEE bonds | Highway finance | Motor fuels taxes | North American Free Trade Agreement | Railroads | Toll roads | Transportation | Transportation bonds | Transportation infrastructure | Transportation, Texas Department of |
Library Call Number:	L1836.76 st29a 1
Session:	76th R.S. (1999)
Online version:	View report [99 pages  File size: 1,593 kb]
Charge:	This report should address the charge below.
1.	Evaluate the state's intermodal transportation planning efforts with an emphasis on NAFTA-related trade corridors and their impact on both metropolitan and rural areas of the state. The Committee shall address all modes of transportation including highways, farm-to-market roads, turnpikes, mass transit, aviation, railroads and water traffic. The Committee shall determine whether the state is maximizing federal funding levels, and evaluate alternative and innovative methods of transportation funding and develop recommendations for their use. The Committee shall coordinate study of this issue with the Special Committee on Border Affairs. The final preparation of the report will be the responsibility of the State Affairs Committee.
Committee:	House Transportation
Title:	Interim report
Library Catalog Title:	House Committee on Transportation, Texas House of Representatives interim report, 2000 : a report to the House of Representatives, 77th Texas Legislature.
Subjects:	Border transit corridors | Bridges | County roads | Driver licenses | Farm-to-market roads | Federal funds | GARVEE bonds | Graduated driver licenses | Highway finance | Highways - safety | Motor fuels taxes | North American Free Trade Agreement | Semi-trailer trucks | Speed limits | Teenage drivers | Toll roads | Traffic fatalities | Transportation bonds | Transportation, Texas Department of |
Library Call Number:	L1836.76 t687
Session:	76th R.S. (1999)
Online version:	View report [58 pages  File size: 2,220 kb]
Charges:	This report should address the charges below.
1.	Study ways the state and counties can ensure a safe, adequately funded county road and bridge system consistent with encouraging commerce and economic growth.
2.	Study the advantages and disadvantages of a graduated driver's license program, including the experience of states that have recently enacted such programs.
3.	Examine highway funding issues in light of the combined impact of rapid transportation growth and increased NAFTA traffic. Monitor state and federal developments related to funding and planning of NAFTA corridors.
4.	Conduct active oversight of the agencies under the committee's jurisdiction, including effects of legislation increasing speed limits.
Committee:	House County Affairs
Title:	Interim report
Library Catalog Title:	Interim report to the 72nd Texas Legislature / Committee on County Affairs.
Subjects:	Amarillo, Texas | Boating | County budgets | County roads | District courts | Indigent health care | Motor fuels taxes | Parks and Wildlife, Texas Department of | Potter County | Randall County | State mandates | Tax assessor-collectors |
Library Call Number:	L1836.71 c832
Session:	71st R.S. (1989)
Online version:	View report [25 pages  File size: 758 kb]
Charges:	This report should address the charges below.
1.	To monitor all activities and to have budget oversight responsibilities for those agencies, boards and commissions as listed in Rule 3, Section 6.
2.	To study the imposition of a county gasoline tax dedicated to the construction and maintenance of county roads and bridges.
3.	To study the need for additional revenue measures for county criminal justice programs.
4.	To study the effect of the County Indigent Health Care program on the county budget.
5.	To study the effect of state mandated programs on rollback limits.
6.	To study the registration of boats and the county tax assessor-collector's role in the process.
7.	To study the possible consolidation of certain contiguous counties.
Committee:	House Ways and Means
Title:	Interim Report
Library Catalog Title:	Interim report, Sixty-fifth legislative session / Texas House of Representatives Committee on Ways and Means.
Subjects:	Business taxes | Franchise taxes | Motor fuels taxes | Natural gas industry | Oil industry | Refineries | Sales tax exemptions | Sales taxes | Severance taxes | State income taxes | Tax system |
Library Call Number:	L1836.65 w368
Session:	65th R.S. (1977)
Online version:	View report [55 pages  File size: 1,927 kb]
Charges:	This report should address the charges below.
1.	Oversight responsibility of agency expenditures and related transactions. This function shall encompass a review and monitoring of all appropriations-related actions of those agencies assigned to this committee for appropriative purposes during the 65th Regular Session of the Legislature, to wit: Comptroller of Public Accounts
2.	A study of and evaluation of the Texas tax structure. This study shall include a review of the sources of state revenue, both present and proposed, and an analysis of the effect these sources have and would have on the taxpayers of the state. Specifically, the study should accumulate data dealing with tax dollar sources; per capita tax burdens, and comparisons with other states; forms of taxes; amounts of taxes paid by the business community as opposed to the general public; and the effects of the Texas tax structure on business growth and location.
3.	A study of the franchise tax and the relative advantages and disadvantages thereto as opposed to other forms of business tax, such as corporate income or profit taxes.
4.	A study of the implications, advantages and disadvantages to the state as a whole and to industry alone of a refinery tax on petroleum products. This study should review and analyze other energy-oriented taxes, such as a severance tax or first sale tax.
5.	A study of the State sales tax. This study should include a review of various proposals to broaden or narrow the tax, and weigh the relative advantages and disadvantages of each. The study should also include a review of current and proposed exemptions to the sales tax and provide justifications for the keeping of these exemptions.
Committee:	House Oil Industry and 'Hot Oil Situation,' Special
Title:	Report - Preliminary Report
Library Catalog Title:	Preliminary report
Subjects:	Comptroller of Public Accounts, Texas | Motor fuels taxes | Oil industry | Oil production | Railroad Commission of Texas | Severance taxes | Tax administration |
Library Call Number:	H.J. of Tex., 44th Leg.,1st C.S. 108 (1935)
Session:	44th R.S. (1935)
Online version:	View report [9 pages  File size: 537 kb]
Charge:	This report should address the charge below.
1.	Investigate the so-called "hot oil situation," determine and report upon truth of the charges commonly made, and study and report upon corrective measures, is such are found to be necessary.
Committee:	House Oil Industry and 'Hot Oil Situation,' Special
Title:	Report - Final Report
Library Catalog Title:	Report of Committee in regard to oil industry of Texas
Subjects:	Comptroller of Public Accounts, Texas | Motor fuels taxes | Oil industry | Oil production | Railroad Commission of Texas | Severance taxes | Tax administration |
Library Call Number:	L1836.44 Oi1 / H.J. of Tex., 44th Leg., 3rd C.S. 481 (1936)
Session:	44th R.S. (1935)
Online version:	View report [9 pages  File size: 580 kb]
Charge:	This report should address the charge below.
1.	Investigate the so-called "hot oil situation," determine and report upon truth of the charges commonly made, and study and report upon corrective measures, is such are found to be necessary.
Committee:	House State Departments, Investigate
Title:	Report
Library Catalog Title:	Report of Committee to Investigate Certain State Departments.
Subjects:	Board of Control, Texas | Business taxes | Courts | Education, Texas State Board of | Executive clemency | Ferguson, James E. 'Pa' | Ferguson, Miriam A. 'Ma' | Government ethics | Governors | Gubernatorial pardons | Highway construction | Highway Department, Texas State | Motor fuels taxes | Pardons and Paroles, Texas Board of | Prisons | Railroad Commission of Texas | State purchasing | Tax administration | Textbooks | Treasury Department, Texas State |
Library Call Number:	H.J. of Tex., 40th Leg., R.S., 132 (1927)
Session:	39th R.S. (1925)
Online version:	View report [28 pages  File size: 1,593 kb]
Charges:	This report should address the charges below.
1.	Investigation into the administration of highway affairs by the State Highway Commission; to investigate the manner in which contracts have been let by said commission, and generally to investigate all and every act of said commission since said date.
2.	Investigation into the State Treasurer's Department and the Railroad Commission with the view of determining if the State is receiving the full amount due by the oil companies as taxes on gross production of oil, as provided by law.
3.	To investigate the granting of pardons, paroles, reprieves and commutation of sentence, and the facts and circumstances connected with the granting of such acts of clemency.
4.	To investigate the letting of contracts for the purpose of text-books and the facts surrounding the letting of such contracts.
5.	To investigate into the administration of public affairs by such other departments of the State government, as in the judgment of said committee may be necessary, and for the promotion of the public good.
Supporting documents
Committee:	House State Departments, Investigate
Title:	Transcript and Testimony, Proceedings of Committee Appointed by the Thirty-ninth Legislature to Investigate Certain State Departments, October 18, 1926-January 3, 1927, Supplement to House Journal for Ninth Day, January 21, 1927
Library Catalog Title:	Minutes
Library Call Number:	L1836.39 IN8
Session:	39th R.S. (1925)
Online version:	View document [886 pages  File size: 433,830 kb]

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