By Brimer                                              H.B. No. 955
          Substitute the following for H.B. No. 955:
          By Jackson                                         C.S.H.B. No. 955
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to charges for sales of motor vehicle fuel involving
    1-3  certain means of payment; providing a criminal penalty.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Chapter 4, Title 132, Revised Statutes, is
    1-6  amended by adding Article 8615 to read as follows:
    1-7        Art. 8615.  CHARGES FOR MOTOR VEHICLE FUEL; METHOD OF PAYMENT
    1-8        Sec. 1.  PROHIBITION.  A person in the business of selling
    1-9  motor vehicle fuel at retail may not, solely because a buyer uses a
   1-10  credit card or cash as means of payment for a sale of motor vehicle
   1-11  fuel:
   1-12              (1)  charge the buyer a price for a unit of fuel that
   1-13  is higher than the price for that unit of gas as indicated on any
   1-14  on-premises sign, promotional material or the pump from which the
   1-15  fuel is dispensed; or
   1-16              (2)  charge the buyer a surcharge.
   1-17        Sec. 2.  PENALTY.  (a)  A person commits an offense if the
   1-18  person violates Section 1 of this article.
   1-19        (b)  An offense under this section is a Class C misdemeanor.
   1-20        Sec. 3.  DEFINITION.  In this article "person" includes an
   1-21  individual, association, and corporation.
   1-22        SECTION 2.  The changes in law made by this Act apply only to
   1-23  an offense committed on or after the effective date of this Act.
   1-24        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
    2-1        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-2  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-3  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-4  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-5  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.