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.