1-1 By: Denny, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Brown) H.B. No. 839 1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House March 15, 1995; 1-3 March 16, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on State 1-4 Affairs; March 29, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote: 1-5 Yeas 10, Nays 2; March 29, 1995, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to imposing a limitation on the amount of special expenses 1-9 that certain municipalities may retain from amounts collected in 1-10 certain court proceedings. 1-11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-12 SECTION 1. Section 144(b), Uniform Act Regulating Traffic on 1-13 Highways (Article 6701d, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended 1-14 to read as follows: 1-15 (b) In each fiscal year, a municipality may retain, from 1-16 fines collected for violation of any highway law as set forth in 1-17 this Act and from special expenses collected under Article 45.54, 1-18 Code of Criminal Procedure, in cases in which such violation is 1-19 alleged, an amount equal to 30 percent of the municipality's 1-20 revenue for the preceding fiscal year from all sources, other than 1-21 federal funds and bond proceeds, as shown by the audit performed 1-22 under Section 103.001, Local Government Code. After a municipality 1-23 has retained that amount, the municipality shall send to the state 1-24 treasurer any portion of a fine or special expense collected that 1-25 exceeds one dollar ($1). The state treasurer shall deposit funds 1-26 received under this section in the state treasury to the credit of 1-27 the general revenue fund. 1-28 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-29 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-30 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-31 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-32 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended. 1-33 * * * * *