Bill not drafted by TLC or Senate E&E. Line and page numbers may not match official copy. By Merritt H.B. No. 3508 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to coupons for certain speeding offenses. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. The purpose of this Act is to promote energy 1-5 conservation. 1-6 SECTION 2. Subchapter H, Chapter 545, Transportation Code, 1-7 is amended by adding Section 545.366 to read as follows: 1-8 Sec. 545.366. SPEED COUPONS. (a) On presentation of a 1-9 coupon provided for by this section by a person stopped by a law 1-10 enforcement officer for an offense of driving at a speed greater 1-11 than the applicable prima facie speed limit but less than 10 miles 1-12 per hour more than that limit, the law enforcement officer shall 1-13 immediately release the person and may not issue the person a 1-14 notice to appear for the offense. 1-15 (b) The Texas Lottery Commission shall provide for sale of 1-16 the coupons by lottery sales agents licensed under Chapter 466, 1-17 Government Code. The commission shall: 1-18 (1) set the price of each coupon at an appropriate 1-19 amount not less than $15 or more than $100; and 1-20 (2) determine an appropriate period of validity after 1-21 which a coupon expires. 1-22 (c) There is not a limit on the number of coupons a person 1-23 may purchase. 1-24 (d) Money collected from purchase of the coupons shall be 2-1 deposited in the state treasury, with 40 percent to the credit of 2-2 the Judicial Fund, with 20 percent to the credit of the Teachers 2-3 Retirement Fund, and the remainder to the credit of the general 2-4 revenue fund. 2-5 (e) The Texas Lottery Commission may adopt rules to 2-6 administer this section. 2-7 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-8 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-9 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-10 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-11 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-12 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-13 passage, and it is so enacted.