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. 1-40 * * * * *