Bill that would likely require another vote on Project Connect moves ahead at the Legislature.
is looking to push forward what he calls “a bad bill” that would have significant implications for Project Connect.’s House Bill 3899 would not allow local government corporations, like the Austin Transit Partnership, to issue bonds paid for using property taxes – a primary funding mechanism for the light rail project. As Watson noted in his news release, the bill would effectively require another vote on.
“And it’s a terrible precedent for the Legislature to muck with a voter-approved infrastructure investment that is allowed under state law almost three years after an election that also fully complied with state law,” Watson’s release read. “But if we’re going to protect light rail for the long run, we need to bring this question back home to the people of Austin and let the people vote – again. Sometimes, killing a bad bill isn’t necessarily the best outcome.
Near the end of the three-hour Pensions, Investments & Financial Services committee hearing on the bill earlier this month, Rep., D-Euless, questioned the precedent that might be set if the state were to pass a law retroactively rendering a local election moot. Troxclair did not seem to have any qualms about the implications. “Great question, and the answer doesn’t matter,” she said.
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