By Junell H.B. No. 834
75R3880 GCH-D
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.