By Ratliff                                      S.B. No. 1681

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to authorizing certain state agencies to set and charge a

 1-3     fee for the use of a credit card to pay certain fees.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 403.023, Government Code, is amended by

 1-6     adding Subsection (f) to read as follows:

 1-7           (f)  The comptroller by rule shall authorize the Department

 1-8     of Public Safety and the Texas Real Estate Commission to set and

 1-9     charge a fee for the use of a credit card to pay a fee assessed by

1-10     the particular agency in an amount reasonable and necessary to

1-11     reimburse the agency for the costs involved in the use of the

1-12     credit card.

1-13           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-14     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-15     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-16     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-17     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-18     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-19     passage, and it is so enacted.