{"id":265606,"date":"2013-06-28T02:39:11","date_gmt":"2013-06-28T07:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=265606"},"modified":"2013-06-29T07:23:01","modified_gmt":"2013-06-29T12:23:01","slug":"senator-nichols-files-transportation-funding-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=265606","title":{"rendered":"Senator Nichols Files Transportation Funding Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/06\/Robert-Nichols1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/06\/Robert-Nichols1-140x150.jpg\" alt=\"Robert Nichols\" width=\"140\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-265607\" \/><\/a>AUSTIN (AP) \u2014 An East Texas state senator has refiled a major transportation funding bill for the special session that starts Monday. The constitutional amendment from Republican Senator Robert Nichols of Jacksonville would divert nearly $1 billion a year to build and repair highways. The plan uses oil and gas severance taxes collected and now sent to the state&#8217;s cash reserve fund. Transportation officials say Texas needs to spend an extra $4 billion per year to keep pace its expanding population.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN (AP) \u2014 An East Texas state senator has refiled a major transportation funding bill for the special session that starts Monday. The constitutional amendment from Republican Senator Robert Nichols of Jacksonville would divert nearly $1 billion a year to build and repair highways. The plan uses oil and gas severance taxes collected and now &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=265606\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Senator Nichols Files Transportation Funding Bill<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-265606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-07 12:36:22","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=265606"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":265860,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265606\/revisions\/265860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=265606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=265606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=265606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}