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.