By Denny, Madden, McCall, Driver H.B. No. 840 74R1724 PAM-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 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 under Subsection (b) 1-10 shall provide to the state treasurer not later than the 120th day 1-11 after the last day of the municipality's fiscal year: 1-12 (1) a copy of its financial statement prepared for 1-13 that fiscal year and filed as required by Chapter 103, Local 1-14 Government Code; and 1-15 (2) a report that indicates the total amount collected 1-16 for that fiscal year under Subsection (b). 1-17 (g) The treasurer shall enforce the limitation on the amount 1-18 a municipality may retain under Subsection (b). 1-19 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-23 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.