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.