By:  Bivins                                             S.B. No. 70
       73R412 DLF-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to fees for certain amusement rides.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 3, Article 21.60, Insurance Code, is
    1-5  amended to read as follows:
    1-6        Sec. 3.  Administration and Enforcement.  (a)  The board
    1-7  shall administer and enforce this article.  The board shall
    1-8  establish reasonable and necessary fees in an amount not to exceed
    1-9  $20 per year for each amusement ride covered by this Act.
   1-10        (b)  For purposes of establishing fees under this section, an
   1-11  amusement ride that consists of two or more self-propelled,
   1-12  four-wheeled vehicles designed to be operated independently and to
   1-13  carry fewer than three persons, including vehicles known as
   1-14  go-carts, is a single amusement ride.
   1-15        (c)  Funds raised through said fees shall be deposited in the
   1-16  State Treasury and shall be credited to the account of the board
   1-17  for administration of this Act.
   1-18        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993, and
   1-19  applies only to a fee assessed against a go-cart amusement ride on
   1-20  or after January 1, 1994.  A fee assessed before January 1, 1994,
   1-21  is governed by the law as it existed immediately before the
   1-22  effective date of this Act, and that law is continued in effect for
   1-23  that purpose.
   1-24        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-1  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-2  emergency   and   an   imperative   public   necessity   that   the
    2-3  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-4  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.