H.B. No. 1764         AN ACT   relating to the operation of metropolitan rapid transit   authorities.          BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:          SECTION 1.  Section 451.110(c), Transportation Code, is   amended to read as follows:          (c)  Subsection (a) does not apply to a contract for:                (1)  an amount less than or equal to the simplified   acquisition threshold as defined by the Federal Acquisition   Regulation (48 C.F.R. Section 2.101) or a successor regulation   [$50,000 or less];                (2)  the purchase of real property;                (3)  personal or professional services; or                (4)  the acquisition of an existing transit system.          SECTION 2.  Section 451.111(a), Transportation Code, is   amended to read as follows:          (a)  Except as provided by Subchapter Q, unless the posting   requirement in Subsection (b) is satisfied, a board may not let a   contract that is:                (1)  for more than the simplified acquisition threshold   as defined by the Federal Acquisition Regulation (48 C.F.R. Section   2.101) or a successor regulation [$50,000]; and                (2)  for:                      (A)  the purchase of real property; or                      (B)  consulting or professional services.          SECTION 3.  Section 451.133(a), Transportation Code, is   amended to read as follows:          (a)  An authority may not spend for capital improvements   money in excess of the total amounts [amount] allocated for major   capital expenditures in the current and preceding annual budgets of   the authority [budget].          SECTION 4.  Section 451.362, Transportation Code, is amended   by amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (e) to read as   follows:          (a)  Notwithstanding other provisions of this chapter and   except as provided by Subsections (c), [and] (d), and (e), the   board, by order or resolution, may issue bonds that are secured by   revenue or taxes of the authority if the bonds:                (1)  have a term of not more than 12 months; and                (2)  are payable only from revenue or taxes received on   or after the date of their issuance and before the end of the fiscal   year following the fiscal year in which the bonds are issued.          (e)  In an authority confirmed before July 1, 1985, in which   the principal municipality has a population of less than one   million, bonds may have a term of not more than 15 years.  The bonds   are payable only from revenue received on or after the date the   bonds are issued.          SECTION 5.  Sections 451.455(h) and (i), Transportation   Code, are amended to read as follows:          (h)  The number of accidents per 100,000 miles is computed by   multiplying the annual number of accidents by 100,000 and dividing   the product by the number of miles for all service, including   charter and nonrevenue service, [directly operated by the   authority] for the same period. In this subsection, "accident"   includes:                (1)  a collision that involves an authority's revenue   vehicle, other than a lawfully parked revenue vehicle, and that   results in property damage, injury, or death; and                (2)  an incident that results in the injury or death of   a person on board or boarding or alighting from an authority's   revenue vehicle.          (i)  The number of miles between mechanical road calls is   computed by dividing the annual number of miles for all service   [directly operated by an authority], including charter and   nonrevenue service, by the number of mechanical road calls for the   same period. In this subsection, "mechanical road call" means an   interruption in revenue service that is caused by revenue vehicle   equipment failure that requires assistance from a person other than   the vehicle operator before the vehicle can be operated normally.          SECTION 6.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.       ______________________________ ______________________________      President of the Senate Speaker of the House                   I certify that H.B. No. 1764 was passed by the House on May 9,   2017, by the following vote:  Yeas 138, Nays 7, 2 present, not   voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B.   No. 1764 on May 24, 2017, by the following vote:  Yeas 116, Nays 26,   2 present, not voting.     ______________________________   Chief Clerk of the House               I certify that H.B. No. 1764 was passed by the Senate, with   amendments, on May 22, 2017, by the following vote:  Yeas 29, Nays   2.     ______________________________   Secretary of the Senate      APPROVED: __________________                   Date                       __________________                 Governor