Enrolled Bill Summary

House Bill 1517	House Author:  Isaac
Effective:  9-1-11	Senate Sponsor:  Hegar

            Current law specifies the required uses of a fine collected by a municipality or county for a violation of a highway law and prescribes the amount that a municipality having a population of less than 5,000 may retain from the fine.  The amount is determined by the municipality's revenue from certain other sources for the preceding fiscal year.  House Bill 1517 amends the Transportation Code to add a temporary provision, set to expire on September 1, 2021, to authorize an additional source of revenue to be used in determining that amount if the municipality has a population of more than 1,000 but less than 1,200 and part of the municipality's boundary is a river that forms part of the boundary between two counties.  The bill also authorizes a county having a population of less than 5,000 to retain from a fine the same amount as a municipality having that population and allows such a county to use the revenue as the county determines appropriate.