Transportation infrastructure is severely underfunded due to the size and needs of the state. A recent study showed that Texas is underinvesting in transportation by several billion dollars each year. The Texas Constitution gives the legislature the power to authorize, by general law, an incorporated city or town to issue bonds or notes for the purpose of financing the development or redevelopment of certain areas and to pledge increases in property tax revenues for the repayment of those bonds or notes. However, the constitution does not expressly give the legislature the power to grant that same authority to counties. C.S.H.J.R. 99 seeks to eliminate this discrepancy between the treatment of cities and counties with regard to this authority and provide counties more tools to develop and redevelop transportation and infrastructure.