By: Ratliff S.B. No. 1681 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to authorizing certain state agencies to set and charge a 1-2 fee for the use of a credit card to pay certain fees. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 403.023, Government Code, is amended by 1-5 adding Subsection (f) to read as follows: 1-6 (f) The comptroller by rule shall authorize the Department 1-7 of Public Safety and the Texas Real Estate Commission to set and 1-8 charge a fee for the use of a credit card to pay a fee assessed by 1-9 the particular agency in an amount reasonable and necessary to 1-10 reimburse the agency for the costs involved in the use of the 1-11 credit card. 1-12 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-13 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-14 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-15 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-16 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-17 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-18 passage, and it is so enacted.