HEARING 1AGENDA

JOINT COMMITTEE
SENATE TRANSPORTATION AND HOMELAND SECURITY COMMITTEE
SENATOR JOHN CARONA, CHAIRMAN
SENATE FINANCE COMMITTEE
SENATOR STEVE OGDEN, CHAIRMAN
WEDNESDAY, MAY 26, 2010, 10:00 A.M.
CAPITOL EXTENSION E1.030

I. Call to Order
II. Roll Call
III. Committee Business

Examine transportation funding concepts contained in legislation considered during the 81st
Legislature, Regular and Special Sessions. Analyze options and make recommendations relating to
historical funding strategies, including prioritization of existing revenues, as well as alternative state and
local transportation funding concepts.

Provide effective budget oversight of Texas Department of Transportation's implementation of Riders 55

and 56, appropriations from State Highway Fund No. 006 and Proposition 12 General Obligation Bonds
for reducing congested road segments.

A. Invited Testimony

1. Current Transportation Revenues

Legislative Budget Board - Thomas Galvan, Analyst
Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts - Bryant Lomax, Manager, Tax Policy
Division
Texas Transportation Institute - David Ellis, Ph.D., Research Scientist

2. Historical Funding Strategies and the Prioritization of Existing Revenues

Texas Department of Transportation - Deirdre Delisi, Commission Chair
Texas Department of Transportation - Amadeo Saenz, Jr., P.E., Executive Director
North Central Texas Council of Governments - Michael Morris, P.E., Director of
Transportation

3. Alternative Transportation Funding Concepts

Transportation Advocates for Texas, Inc. - Vic Suhm, Senior Consultant, North
Texas Commission
Transportation Advocates for Texas, Inc. - Rider Scott, Executive Director, Dallas
Regional Mobility Coalition
Transportation Advocates for Texas, Inc. - Judy Hawley, Secretary of the Port
Commission, Port of Corpus Christi Authority

B. Public Testimony

IV. Recess/Adjourn