By Black H.B. No. 1895 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 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. "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 "Department" means the Texas Department of Transportation. 1-13 (b) Escrow Accounts. The Department may establish escrow 1-14 accounts within the state highway fund for the prepayment of permit 1-15 fees which shall be administered in accordance with an agreement 1-16 containing such terms and conditions as may be agreeable to the 1-17 Department, including, but not limited to, such fees as may be 1-18 established by the Department for the administration of this Act. 1-19 The department shall deposit fees imposed under this section in the 1-20 state treasury to the credit of the state highway fund. The fees 1-21 may be appropriated only to the department for purposes of 1-22 administering this Act. 1-23 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 2-1 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-2 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-3 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-4 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.