Texas Mobility Fund reports
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Texas Mobility Fund reports

Voter approval in 2001 of Proposition 15 (Texas constitutional amendment) and enactment of legislation by the 77th Legislature in 2001 created the Texas Mobility Fund. In particular, Article III, Section 49-k of the Texas Constitution (the "Constitutional Provision") created the Texas Mobility Fund within the treasury of the State of Texas.

House Bill 122, which was enacted during the regular session of the 84th Legislature and became effective on June 10, 2015, provides that no additional program obligations may be issued or incurred after Jan. 1, 2015, except for obligations issued to refund outstanding obligations to provide savings to the state. Additionally, HB 122 provides that money in the Mobility Fund, in excess of the amounts required by the proceedings authorizing obligations and credit agreements to be retained on deposit, may not be used for toll roads.

Future revenue

The creation of the Mobility Fund allowed TxDOT to issue bonds secured by future revenue. This allowed the acceleration of mobility projects throughout the state.

Fund administration

The Mobility Fund is administered by the Texas Transportation Commission (the commission) as a revolving fund to provide a method of financing for the construction, reconstruction, acquisition and expansion of state highways, including costs of any necessary design and costs of acquisition of rights-of-way, as determined by the commission in accordance with standards and procedures established by law.

Moneys in the Mobility Fund may also be used to provide state participation in the payment of a portion of the costs of constructing and providing publicly owned toll roads and other public transportation projects in accordance with procedures, standards and limitations established by law.

Legislation enacted under the Constitutional Provision authorized the commission to issue and sell obligations of the state and enter into related credit agreements that are payable from and secured by a pledge of and a lien on all or part of the money on deposit in the Mobility Fund.