H.B. No. 1895 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to escrow accounts for the prepayment of fees required for 1-3 permits authorizing the transportation of a vehicle and its load or 1-4 a combination of vehicles and load exceeding legal size and weight 1-5 limitations. 1-6 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-7 SECTION 1. (a) DEFINITIONS. (1) "Permit" means any permit 1-8 issued by the Texas Department of Transportation, in accordance 1-9 with law, authorizing the transportation of a vehicle and its load 1-10 or a combination of vehicles and load that exceed legal size and 1-11 weight limitations. 1-12 (2) "Department" means the Texas Department of 1-13 Transportation. 1-14 (b) ESCROW ACCOUNTS. The department may establish escrow 1-15 accounts within the state highway fund for the prepayment of permit 1-16 fees which shall be administered in accordance with an agreement 1-17 containing such terms and conditions as may be agreeable to the 1-18 department, including, but not limited to, such fees as may be 1-19 established by the department for the administration of this Act. 1-20 The department shall deposit fees imposed under this section in the 1-21 state treasury to the credit of the state highway fund. The fees 1-22 may be appropriated only to the department for purposes of 1-23 administering this Act. 2-1 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 2-2 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-3 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-4 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-5 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.