1-1 By: Horn (Senate Sponsor - Brown) H.B. No. 2516
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 17, 1993;
1-3 May 19, 1993, read first time and referred to Committee on Finance;
1-4 May 19, 1993, rereferred to Committee on Natural Resources;
1-5 May 21, 1993, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 8,
1-6 Nays 0; May 21, 1993, sent to printer.)
1-7 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-8 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-9 Sims x
1-10 Truan x
1-11 Armbrister x
1-12 Barrientos x
1-13 Bivins x
1-14 Brown x
1-15 Carriker x
1-16 Lucio x
1-17 Montford x
1-18 Ratliff x
1-19 Shelley x
1-20 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-21 AN ACT
1-22 relating to the fees for the administration and enforcement of the
1-23 labeling of motor fuels containing certain mixtures of gasoline and
1-24 alchohol.
1-25 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-26 SECTION 1. Sections 9(c) and (e), Chapter 1033, Acts of the
1-27 71st Legislature, Regular Session, 1989 (Article 8614, Vernon's
1-28 Texas Civil Statutes), are amended to read as follows:
1-29 (c) In addition to the fees authorized by Subsection (b) of
1-30 this section, the comptroller by rule may impose a fee to be
1-31 collected on a periodic basis determined by the comptroller from
1-32 each distributor, supplier, wholesaler, and jobber who deals in a
1-33 motor fuel, without regard to whether the motor fuel is subject to
1-34 regulation under this Act. The comptroller by rule shall prescribe
1-35 the form for reporting and remitting the fees imposed by and under
1-36 this section.
1-37 (e) The total amount of the fees collected annually under
1-38 this Act may not exceed the lesser of:
1-39 (1) the costs of administering and enforcing the
1-40 provisions of this Act; or
1-41 (2) $500,000.
1-42 SECTION 2. Section 1(2), Chapter 1033, Acts of the 71st
1-43 Legislature, Regular Session, 1989 (Article 8614, Vernon's Texas
1-44 Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
1-45 (2) "Motor fuel" has the meaning given that term by
1-46 Section 153.001 <153.001(17)>, Tax Code.
1-47 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-48 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-49 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-50 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-51 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-52 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-53 passage, and it is so enacted.
1-54 * * * * *
1-55 Austin,
1-56 Texas
1-57 May 21, 1993
1-58 Hon. Bob Bullock
1-59 President of the Senate
1-60 Sir:
1-61 We, your Committee on Natural Resources to which was referred H.B.
1-62 No. 2516, have had the same under consideration, and I am
1-63 instructed to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation
1-64 that it do pass and be printed.
1-65 Sims,
1-66 Chairman
1-67 * * * * *
1-68 WITNESSES
2-1 No witnesses appeared on H.B. No. 2516.