H.B. No. 2516
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the fees for the administration and enforcement of the
    1-3  labeling of motor fuels containing certain mixtures of gasoline and
    1-4  alcohol.
    1-5        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-6        SECTION 1.  Sections 9(c) and (e), Chapter 1033, Acts of the
    1-7  71st Legislature, Regular Session, 1989 (Article 8614, Vernon's
    1-8  Texas Civil Statutes), are amended to read as follows:
    1-9        (c)  In addition to the fees authorized by Subsection (b) of
   1-10  this section, the comptroller by rule may impose a fee to be
   1-11  collected on a periodic basis determined by the comptroller from
   1-12  each distributor, supplier, wholesaler, and jobber who deals in a
   1-13  motor fuel, without regard to whether the motor fuel is subject to
   1-14  regulation under this Act.  The comptroller by rule shall prescribe
   1-15  the form for reporting and remitting the fees imposed by and under
   1-16  this section.
   1-17        (e)  The total amount of the fees collected annually under
   1-18  this Act may not exceed the lesser of:
   1-19              (1)  the costs of administering and enforcing the
   1-20  provisions of this Act; or
   1-21              (2)  $500,000.
   1-22        SECTION 2.  Section 1(2), Chapter 1033, Acts of the 71st
   1-23  Legislature, Regular Session, 1989 (Article 8614, Vernon's Texas
    2-1  Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
    2-2              (2)  "Motor fuel" has the meaning given that term by
    2-3  Section 153.001 <153.001(17)>, Tax Code.
    2-4        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-5  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-6  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-7  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-8  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-9  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-10  passage, and it is so enacted.