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.