|
 Coby
Chase directs the
Government and
Public Affairs Division, which
oversees four crucial areas of department business: State Legislative Affairs,
Federal Legislative Affairs, Marketing, and Research. TxDOT career
highlights:
- Steered TxDOT’s participation in the 103rd through 109th sessions of the
United States Congress and through the 74th through 79th sessions of the
Texas Legislature.
- Succeeded in bringing new flexibility, better financing options, and
strengthened funding formulas to the Texas transportation system in the
federal Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A
Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU).
- Worked during the 78th and 79th Session of the Texas Legislature to help
deliver HB 3588 and HB 2702, which completely altered the methods used to
deliver infrastructure in Texas and are national legislative models for the
next generation of transportation development.
- Represented the state’s interests in the Transportation Equity Act for
the 21st Century (TEA 21), ensuring highway-user fees would be spent for
transportation, and securing increased annual federal funding for Texas.
- Helped cities and counties accelerate bridge improvements and bring them
up to “school bus standards” through work on TxDOT’s Improved Off-System
Bridge Program.
- Served as one of the architects of the Trans-Texas Corridor, the
department's plan to reshape the transportation system in Texas.
Before joining TxDOT in March 1994, Chase oversaw legislative affairs for
the Universities Research Association's Superconducting Super Collider
Laboratory, working directly with members of Congress, congressional
committees, and the business and scientific communities on legislative
issues relating to the Collider. Chase, while working at the Texas National
Research Laboratory Commission, served as the Texas Congressional liaison on
matters relating to the state's financial interest in the project.
A dean's distinguished graduate, he earned a bachelor's degree in
government from the University of Texas at Austin. Chase, who hails from
Houston, lives in Austin with his wife, Julie, and daughter, Sydney. |
