By Junell                                              H.B. No. 834

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the delay of certain payments or transfers from the

 1-3     general revenue fund.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 1, Chapter 111, Acts of the 74th

 1-6     Legislature, Regular Session, 1995, is amended to read as follows:

 1-7           Sec. 1.  ALLOCATIONS TO THE STATE HIGHWAY FUND.

 1-8     (a)  Notwithstanding any other law, the comptroller shall allocate

 1-9     and deposit to the credit of the state highway fund the portions of

1-10     the following revenue allocable to that fund as soon as practicable

1-11     after September 5, 1999 [1997], and no later than September 10,

1-12     1999 [1997].

1-13                 (1)  the unclaimed refunds of gasoline taxes under

1-14     Section 153.502, Tax Code, for June, July, and August, 1999 [1997];

1-15                 (2)  the gasoline taxes collected under Subchapter B,

1-16     Chapter 153, Tax Code, for June, July, and August, 1999 [1997];

1-17                 (3)  the diesel fuel taxes collected under Subchapter

1-18     C, Chapter 153, Tax Code, for June, July, and August, 1999 [1997];

1-19     and

1-20                 (4)  the liquefied gas taxes collected under Subchapter

1-21     D, Chapter 153, Tax Code, for June, July, and August, 1999 [1997].

1-22           (b)  This section expires October 1, 1999 [1997].

1-23           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-24     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

 2-1     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

 2-2     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

 2-3     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

 2-4     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

 2-5     passage, and it is so enacted.