{"id":326902,"date":"2015-02-25T14:49:53","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T20:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=326902"},"modified":"2015-02-26T14:49:13","modified_gmt":"2015-02-26T20:49:13","slug":"texas-senate-to-consider-using-vehicle-sales-tax-for-roads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=326902","title":{"rendered":"Texas Senate to Consider Using Vehicle Sales Tax for Roads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/11\/Robert-Nichols3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/11\/Robert-Nichols3.jpg\" alt=\"Robert Nichols3\" width=\"144\" height=\"143\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-282355\" \/><\/a>AUSTIN (AP) \u2014 The Texas Senate Transportation Committee has approved a plan funneling part of the revenue from the state&#8217;s vehicle sales tax into building and maintaining roads. Sponsored by Sen. Robert Nichols, a Jacksonville Republican who chairs the committee, Wednesday&#8217;s vote means the proposal can be considered by the full Senate. Taxes collected on vehicle sales currently flow into the state budget&#8217;s general revenue. Nichols&#8217; plan would divert tax collections over $2.5 billion annually for road infrastructure beginning in 2018. Nichols said it could generate more than $2 billion annually. Governor Greg Abbott has made transportation infrastructure spending a priority, fast-tracking related bills through the Legislature. Lt. Governor Dan Patrick oversees the flow of Senate legislation and praised the plan, saying the Legislature previously had &#8220;relied too heavily on debt and tolls.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN (AP) \u2014 The Texas Senate Transportation Committee has approved a plan funneling part of the revenue from the state&#8217;s vehicle sales tax into building and maintaining roads. Sponsored by Sen. Robert Nichols, a Jacksonville Republican who chairs the committee, Wednesday&#8217;s vote means the proposal can be considered by the full Senate. Taxes collected on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=326902\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Texas Senate to Consider Using Vehicle Sales Tax for Roads<\/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-326902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-14 16:18:41","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\/326902","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=326902"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":326974,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326902\/revisions\/326974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=326902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=326902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=326902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}