1-1 By: Ratliff S.B. No. 1681 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 14, 1997; March 24, 1997, read 1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Finance; April 8, 1997, 1-4 reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 11, Nays 0; 1-5 April 8, 1997, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to authorizing certain state agencies to set and charge a 1-9 fee for the use of a credit card to pay certain fees. 1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-11 SECTION 1. Section 403.023, Government Code, is amended by 1-12 adding Subsection (f) to read as follows: 1-13 (f) The comptroller by rule shall authorize the Department 1-14 of Public Safety and the Texas Real Estate Commission to set and 1-15 charge a fee for the use of a credit card to pay a fee assessed by 1-16 the particular agency in an amount reasonable and necessary to 1-17 reimburse the agency for the costs involved in the use of the 1-18 credit card. 1-19 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-23 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-24 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-25 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-26 * * * * *