By: Pitts H.B. No. 2080 73R5810 GCH-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the use of certain amounts in the state highway fund. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 5(b), Chapter 186, General Laws, Acts of 1-5 the 39th Legislature, Regular Session, 1925 (Article 6674e, 1-6 Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows: 1-7 (b) Revenues that are not required by the Texas Constitution 1-8 or Federal law to be spent for public roadways and that are 1-9 deposited in the State Highway Fund may be appropriated for any 1-10 function performed by the Texas Department of Transportation. The 1-11 Texas Department of Transportation shall use appropriations of 1-12 revenues described by this subsection, to the extent permitted by 1-13 the terms of the appropriations and by federal law, to acquire 1-14 federal funds available under the Intermodal Surface Transportation 1-15 Efficiency Act of 1991 (23 U.S.C. Section 133), including 1-16 subsequent amendments to that Act, for the full range of 1-17 permissible transportation enhancement activities, as defined in 23 1-18 U.S.C. Section 101(a), including subsequent amendments of that 1-19 definition. 1-20 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-21 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-22 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-23 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-24 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-1 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-2 passage, and it is so enacted.