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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