By Lindsay S.B. No. 679 75R6555 JD-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the requirement that a portion of the sales and use tax 1-3 revenue collected by certain metropolitan rapid transit authorities 1-4 be used only for county and municipal road and bridge purposes. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Section 451.065, Transportation Code, is amended 1-7 by adding Subsection (g) to read as follows: 1-8 (g) Not later than April 1 of each year, the board of an 1-9 authority that imposes a sales and use tax shall distribute an 1-10 amount that is not less than 25 percent of the total revenue from 1-11 the sales and use tax that the authority collected during the 1-12 preceding calendar year to each municipality and county located in 1-13 the authority. The board shall distribute the amount in proportion 1-14 to the revenue from the sales and use tax that was collected in 1-15 that year in each municipality and in the unincorporated territory 1-16 of each county. Money received from the authority by a 1-17 municipality or a county may be used only for the performance of an 1-18 action described by Subsection (a). This subsection applies only 1-19 to the board of an authority in which the principal municipality 1-20 has a population of more than 1.2 million. 1-21 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect January 1, 1998. 1-22 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-23 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-24 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-1 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-2 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.