By Denny, Madden, McCall, Driver H.B. No. 839 74R3795 PAM-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to imposing a limitation on the amount of special expenses 1-3 that certain municipalities may retain from amounts collected in 1-4 certain court proceedings. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Section 144(b), Uniform Act Regulating Traffic on 1-7 Highways (Article 6701d, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended 1-8 to read as follows: 1-9 (b) In each fiscal year, a municipality may retain, from 1-10 fines collected for violation of any highway law as set forth in 1-11 this Act and from special expenses collected under Article 45.54, 1-12 Code of Criminal Procedure, in cases in which such violation is 1-13 alleged, an amount equal to 30 percent of the municipality's 1-14 revenue for the preceding fiscal year from all sources, other than 1-15 federal funds and bond proceeds, as shown by the audit performed 1-16 under Section 103.001, Local Government Code. After a municipality 1-17 has retained that amount, the municipality shall send to the state 1-18 treasurer any portion of a fine or special expense collected that 1-19 exceeds one dollar ($1). The state treasurer shall deposit funds 1-20 received under this section in the state treasury to the credit of 1-21 the general revenue fund. 1-22 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-23 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-24 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-1 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-2 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.