Texas Transportation Code 201.805 – Reports and Information
(a) The department shall annually publish in appropriate media and on the department’s Internet website in a format that allows the information to be read into a commercially available electronic database a statistical comparison of department districts and the following information, calculated on a per capita basis considering the most recent census data and listed for each county and for the state for each fiscal year:
(1) the number of square miles;
(2) the number of vehicles registered;
(3) the population;
(4) daily vehicle miles;
(5) the number of centerline miles and lane miles;
(6) construction, maintenance, and contracted routine and preventive maintenance expenditures;
(7) combined construction, maintenance, and contracted routine and preventive maintenance expenditures;
(8) the number of district and division office construction and maintenance employees;
(9) information regarding grant programs, including:
(A) Routine Airport Maintenance Program grants;
(B) Public Transportation Grant Program grants;
(C) Medical Transportation Program grants; and
(D) aviation grants or aviation capital improvement grants;
(10) approved State Infrastructure Bank loans;
(11) Texas Traffic Safety Program grants and expenditures;
(12) the dollar amount of any pass-through toll agreements;
(13) the percentage of highway construction projects completed on time;
(14) the percentage of highway construction projects that cost:
(A) more than the contract amount; and
(B) less than the contract amount; and
(15) a description of real property acquired by the department through the exercise of eminent domain, including the acreage of the property and the location of the property.
(b) The department shall include information from all department contracts in the statistical comparison and information reports required under Subsection (a).
Terms Used In Texas Transportation Code 201.805
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
- Person: includes corporation, organization, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, association, and any other legal entity. See Texas Government Code 311.005
- Population: means the population shown by the most recent federal decennial census. See Texas Government Code 311.005
- Property: means real and personal property. See Texas Government Code 311.005
- Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
- Year: means 12 consecutive months. See Texas Government Code 311.005
(c) The department shall annually publish in appropriate media and on the department’s Internet website in a format that allows the information to be read into a commercially available electronic database the following information for each fiscal year:
(1) the amount of money in the Texas Mobility Fund itemized by the source of the money; and
(2) the amount of money received by the department:
(A) itemized by the source of the money; and
(B) compared to the amount of money appropriated by the legislature to the department in the General Appropriations Act.
(d) The department shall annually publish in appropriate media and on the department’s Internet website in a format that allows the information to be read into a commercially available electronic database a list of each contract the department has with:
(1) a person required to register as a lobbyist under Chapter 305, Government Code;
(2) a public relations firm; or
(3) a government consultant.