By Driver                                              H.B. No. 266
       74R2558 GWK-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to special expenses paid on dismissal of complaints
    1-3  alleging certain traffic offenses.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 144(b), Uniform Act Regulating Traffic on
    1-6  Highways (Article 6701d, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended
    1-7  to read as follows:
    1-8        (b)  In each fiscal year, a municipality may retain, from
    1-9  fines collected for violation of any highway law as set forth in
   1-10  this Act and from special expenses collected under Article 45.54,
   1-11  Code of Criminal Procedure, for dismissal of complaints alleging
   1-12  violations of any highway law as set forth in this Act, an amount
   1-13  equal to 30 percent of the municipality's revenue for the preceding
   1-14  fiscal year from all sources, other than federal funds and bond
   1-15  proceeds, as shown by the audit performed under Section 103.001,
   1-16  Local Government Code.  After a municipality has retained that
   1-17  amount, the municipality shall send to the state treasurer any
   1-18  portion of a fine or special expense collected that exceeds one
   1-19  dollar ($1).  The state treasurer shall deposit funds received
   1-20  under this section in the state treasury to the credit of the
   1-21  general revenue fund.
   1-22        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-23        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-24  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-1  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-2  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-3  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.