Local governments already have a powerful array of transportation tools at their disposal-one of which is a transit authority, which a local community can create and fund by dedicating a portion of its local sales tax revenue to it.
My Journey to Understand El Paso’s Lobbying Expenses
In 2019, the Texas Legislature passed a law (House Bill 1495) to help correct “unethical political behavior” at the local level. One key provision in the law requires political subdivisions to disclose the amount of money being spent to lobby the legislature in their proposed budgets. As more fully articulated in Sec. 140.0045 (b)(2) of...