H.B. No. 840
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the enforcement of the limitation on the amount that
    1-3  certain municipalities may retain from amounts collected for
    1-4  traffic violations.
    1-5        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-6        SECTION 1.  Section 144, Uniform Act Regulating Traffic on
    1-7  Highways (Article 6701d, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended
    1-8  by adding Subsections (f) and (g) to read as follows:
    1-9        (f)  A municipality retaining amounts of 20 percent or more
   1-10  under Subsection (b) shall provide to the state comptroller not
   1-11  later than the 120th day after the last day of the municipality's
   1-12  fiscal year:
   1-13              (1)  a copy of its financial statement prepared for
   1-14  that fiscal year and filed as required by Chapter 103, Local
   1-15  Government Code; and
   1-16              (2)  a report that indicates the total amount collected
   1-17  for that fiscal year under Subsection (b).
   1-18        (g)  The comptroller shall enforce the limitation on the
   1-19  amount a municipality may retain under Subsection (b).
   1-20        SECTION 2.  Section 144, Uniform Act Regulating Traffic on
   1-21  Highways (Article 6701d, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended
   1-22  by adding Subsection (h) to read as follows:
   1-23        (h)  If the state comptroller conducts an audit pursuant to
   1-24  Subsection (g) and it is determined that the city is retaining more
    2-1  than 20 percent of the amounts under Subsection (b) and has not
    2-2  complied with Subsection (f), the city shall pay for the costs
    2-3  incurred by the state comptroller to conduct the audit.
    2-4        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-5  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-6  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-7  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-8  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.