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2. authorize a council', -option city homestead exemption expressed as a percentage or flat - dollar amount. 3. convert the sales t reallocation process from a ministerial process into a more formalized and transparent ad inistrative process. 4. authorize a city council to opt -in to requiring residential fire sprinklers in newly constructed single-family dwellings. 5. make beneficial am ndments to H.B. 3167 (2019), the subdivision platting shot clock bill. 6. allow for greater flexibility by cities to fund local transportation projects; amend or otherwise modify state law to help cities fund transportation projects; or provide cities with additional fundingoQptions and resources to address transportation needs that the state and federal governments fail to address. 7. provide additional funding to the Texas Department of Transportation for equitable transportation projects that would benefit cities and provide local, state, and federal transportation funding of transportation infrastructure, including rail. 8. allow a city to lower the prima facie speed limit from 30 to 25 miles per hour without the need for a traffic study. i 9. in relation to federal transit funding: (1) clarify federal congressional intent of federal transit law to protect cities across the United States from being penalized due a to a population drop suffered as a direct result of a natural disaster; (2) explicitly state that only presidentially declared major disasters are covered, in accordance with the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (P.L. 100-707); and (3) protect federal transit funding streams for urbanized areas until the execution of the next decennial census. 10. in relation to federal legislation, provide states greater authority over management of train delays in conjunction with affected cities. 11. provide greater authority to the Texas Department of Transportation to improve city railroad crossings and instal signal lights where there are safety concerns. 12. establish that expenditures of Community Development Block Grant funds by cities are a governmental function. 13. require city conse t before the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) is authorized to issue a standard permit for a rock crushing operation, cement crushing operation, or any similar activity that may be authorized under a standard air permit from TCEQ within the ,corporate limits or ETJ of a city. Alternatively, or in addition, such legislation may: (a) authorize a city to restrict, prevent, or regulate the locating of such activities in the cityes corporate limits or ETJ in other manners, such as imposing minimum