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.