1-1 By: Junell (Senate Sponsor - Ratliff) H.B. No. 834
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 9, 1997;
1-3 April 10, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Finance; April 18, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote:
1-5 Yeas 10, Nays 0; April 18, 1997, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the delay of certain payments or transfers from the
1-9 general revenue fund.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Section 1, Chapter 111, Acts of the 74th
1-12 Legislature, Regular Session, 1995, is amended to read as follows:
1-13 Sec. 1. ALLOCATIONS TO THE STATE HIGHWAY FUND.
1-14 (a) Notwithstanding any other law, the comptroller shall allocate
1-15 and deposit to the credit of the state highway fund the portions of
1-16 the following revenue allocable to that fund as soon as practicable
1-17 after September 5, 1999 [1997], and no later than September 10,
1-18 1999 [1997].
1-19 (1) the unclaimed refunds of gasoline taxes under
1-20 Section 153.502, Tax Code, for June, July, and August, 1999 [1997];
1-21 (2) the gasoline taxes collected under Subchapter B,
1-22 Chapter 153, Tax Code, for June, July, and August, 1999 [1997];
1-23 (3) the diesel fuel taxes collected under Subchapter
1-24 C, Chapter 153, Tax Code, for June, July, and August, 1999 [1997];
1-25 and
1-26 (4) the liquefied gas taxes collected under Subchapter
1-27 D, Chapter 153, Tax Code, for June, July, and August, 1999 [1997].
1-28 (b) This section expires October 1, 1999 [1997].
1-29 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-30 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-31 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-32 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-33 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-34 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-35 passage, and it is so enacted.
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