By Maxey                                              H.B. No. 1924
       74R4915 MJW-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the state mileage guide adopted by the comptroller.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 660.053, Government Code, is amended to
    1-5  read as follows:
    1-6        Sec. 660.053.  DETERMINATION OF MILEAGE FOR TRAVEL BY
    1-7  PERSONAL CAR.  (a)  In determining the amount of a reimbursement or
    1-8  advance payment for travel by privately owned car in the state, the
    1-9  comptroller shall:
   1-10              (1)  compute all distances according to the shortest
   1-11  route between points;
   1-12              (2)  adopt a mileage guide that is available both
   1-13  electronically and in a printed version that includes information
   1-14  on <a chart of> distances and provides <showing> the shortest route
   1-15  between points in the state, including any farm-to-market road; and
   1-16              (3)  update <annually reissue> the mileage guide as
   1-17  necessary.
   1-18        (b)  The comptroller shall encourage use of the electronic
   1-19  mileage guide.  The comptroller may prescribe the circumstances
   1-20  under which a state agency may rely on the printed mileage guide.
   1-21        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-22        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-23  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-24  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-1  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-2  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.