1-1  By:  Denny, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Brown)            H.B. No. 840
    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; April 21, 1995, reported favorably, as amended, by the
    1-5  following vote:  Yeas 10, Nays 1; April 21, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6  COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1                                By:  Nixon
    1-7  Amend H.B. 840 as follows:
    1-8        (1)  In SECTION 1, Section 144, subsection (f), insert the
    1-9  following language between the words "amounts" and "under":
   1-10        "of 20 percent or more"
   1-11        (2)  In SECTION 1, Section 144, Subsection (f), delete the
   1-12  words "state treasurer" and substitute the words "state
   1-13  comptroller".
   1-14        (3)  In SECTION 1, Section 144, Subsection (g), delete the
   1-15  word "treasurer" and substitute the word "comptroller".
   1-16        (4)  Add a new SECTION 2 to read as follows:
   1-17        "SECTION 2.  Section 144, Uniform Act Regulating Traffic on
   1-18  Highways (Article 6701d, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended
   1-19  by adding Subsection (h) to read as follows:
   1-20        "(h)  If the state comptroller conducts an audit pursuant to
   1-21  subsection (g) and it is determined that the city is retaining more
   1-22  than 20% of the amounts under subsection (b) and has not complied
   1-23  with subsection (f), the city shall pay for the costs incurred by
   1-24  the state comptroller to conduct the audit.
   1-25        (5)  Renumber existing SECTION 2 to be SECTION 3.
   1-26                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
   1-27                                AN ACT
   1-28  relating to the enforcement of the limitation on the amount that
   1-29  certain municipalities may retain from amounts collected for
   1-30  traffic violations.
   1-31        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-32        SECTION 1.  Section 144, Uniform Act Regulating Traffic on
   1-33  Highways (Article 6701d, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended
   1-34  by adding Subsections (f) and (g) to read as follows:
   1-35        (f)  A municipality retaining amounts under Subsection (b)
   1-36  shall provide to the state treasurer not later than the 120th day
   1-37  after the last day of the municipality's fiscal year:
   1-38              (1)  a copy of its financial statement prepared for
   1-39  that fiscal year and filed as required by Chapter 103, Local
   1-40  Government Code; and
   1-41              (2)  a report that indicates the total amount collected
   1-42  for that fiscal year under Subsection (b).
   1-43        (g)  The treasurer shall enforce the limitation on the amount
   1-44  a municipality may retain under Subsection (b).
   1-45        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-46  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-47  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-48  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-49  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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