1-1  By:  Maxey (Senate Sponsor - Barrientos)              H.B. No. 1924
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House May 10, 1995;
    1-3  May 11, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on State
    1-4  Affairs; May 22, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote:
    1-5  Yeas 11, Nays 0; May 22, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-7                                AN ACT
    1-8  relating to the state mileage guide adopted by the comptroller.
    1-9        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-10        SECTION 1.  Section 660.053, Government Code, is amended to
   1-11  read as follows:
   1-12        Sec. 660.053.  DETERMINATION OF MILEAGE FOR TRAVEL BY
   1-13  PERSONAL CAR.  (a)  In determining the amount of a reimbursement or
   1-14  advance payment for travel by privately owned car in the state, the
   1-15  comptroller shall:
   1-16              (1)  compute all distances according to the shortest
   1-17  route between points;
   1-18              (2)  adopt a mileage guide that is available both
   1-19  electronically and in a printed version that includes information
   1-20  on <a chart of> distances and provides <showing> the shortest route
   1-21  between points in the state, including any farm-to-market road; and
   1-22              (3)  update <annually reissue> the mileage guide as
   1-23  necessary.
   1-24        (b)  The comptroller shall encourage use of the electronic
   1-25  mileage guide.  The comptroller may prescribe the circumstances
   1-26  under which a state agency may rely on the printed mileage guide.
   1-27        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-28        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-29  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-30  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-31  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-32  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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