By:  Montford                                          S.B. No. 410
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to the delay of certain payments or transfers from the
    1-2  general revenue fund.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  ALLOCATIONS TO THE STATE HIGHWAY FUND.
    1-5  (a)  Notwithstanding any other law, the comptroller shall allocate
    1-6  and deposit to the credit of the state highway fund the portions of
    1-7  the following revenue allocable to that fund as soon as practicable
    1-8  after September 5, 1997, and no later than September 10, 1997.
    1-9              (1)  the unclaimed refunds of gasoline taxes under
   1-10  Section 153.502, Tax Code, for June, July, and August, 1997;
   1-11              (2)  the gasoline taxes collected under Subchapter B,
   1-12  Chapter 153, Tax Code, for June, July, and August, 1997;
   1-13              (3)  the diesel fuel taxes collected under Subchapter
   1-14  C, Chapter 153, Tax Code, for June, July, and August, 1997; and
   1-15              (4)  the liquefied gas taxes collected under Subchapter
   1-16  D, Chapter 153, Tax Code, for June, July, and August, 1997.
   1-17        (b)  This section expires October 1, 1997.
   1-18        SECTION 2.  REPEAL.  Section 153.5015, Tax Code, is repealed.
   1-19        SECTION 3.  EMERGENCY.  The importance of this legislation
   1-20  and the 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,
   1-24  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    2-1  passage, and it is so enacted.