1-1           By:  Gallegos                                    S.B. No. 342

 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed January 29, 1997; February 3, 1997,

 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental

 1-4     Relations; February 17, 1997, reported adversely, with favorable

 1-5     Committee Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 6, Nays 5;

 1-6     February 17, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-7     COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 342                 By:  Moncrief

 1-8                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-9                                   AN ACT

1-10     relating to the disposition of the optional county road and bridge

1-11     fee in certain counties.

1-12           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-13           SECTION 1.  Section 502.103, Transportation Code, is amended

1-14     to read as follows:

1-15           Sec. 502.103.  DISPOSITION OF OPTIONAL COUNTY ROAD AND BRIDGE

1-16     FEE. (a)  Each Monday a county assessor-collector shall apportion

1-17     the collections for the preceding week for a fee imposed under

1-18     Section 502.172 by:

1-19                 (1)  crediting an amount equal to 97 percent of the

1-20     collections to the county road and bridge fund; and

1-21                 (2)  sending to the department an amount equal to three

1-22     percent of the collections to defray the department's costs of

1-23     administering Section 502.172.

1-24           (b)  During each county fiscal year, the commissioners court

1-25     of a county with a population of more than 2.8 million shall

1-26     allocate funds credited under Subsection (a)(1) for road projects

1-27     in each municipality in the county and in the unincorporated area

1-28     of the county.  The allocation must be made in the same proportion

1-29     that the population of the municipality located in the county or

1-30     the population of the unincorporated area bears to the total

1-31     population of the county.

1-32           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997, and

1-33     applies only to county fiscal years that begin on or after that

1-34     date.

1-35           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-36     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-37     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-38     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-39     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.

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