By Horn H.B. No. 2516
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the imposition of fees for motor fuel testing and
1-3 inspections.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 9, Chapter 153, Tax Code, Article 8614,
1-6 V.T.C.S., is amended to read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 9, subsection (c) In addition to the fees authorized by
1-8 Subsection (b) of this section, the comptroller by rule may impose
1-9 a fee to be collected on a periodic basis determined by the
1-10 comptroller from each distributor, supplier, wholesaler, and jobber
1-11 who deals in a motor fuel subject to <regulation> testing and/or
1-12 inspections under this Act. The comptroller by rule shall
1-13 prescribe the form for reporting and remitting the fees imposed by
1-14 and under this section.
1-15 SECTION 2. EMERGENCY. The importance of this legislation
1-16 and the crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.