By Pickett                                            H.B. No. 3467
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the disposition of the proceeds of fines collected for
 1-3     overweight vehicles.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 621.506(g), Transportation Code, is
 1-6     amended to read as follows:
 1-7           (g)  A governmental entity that collects a fine under this
 1-8     section for an offense involving a vehicle having a gross weight
 1-9     that is more than 5,000 pounds heavier than the vehicle's allowable
1-10     gross weight shall send an amount equal to 50 percent of the fine
1-11     to the comptroller unless the offense occurred within 20 miles of
1-12     an international border in which event the entire amount of the
1-13     fine shall be deposited in:
1-14                 (1)  the municipal treasury, if the fine was imposed by
1-15     a municipal court; or
1-16                 (2)  the county treasury, if the fine was imposed by a
1-17     justice court.
1-18           SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act to Section
1-19     621.506(g), Transportation Code, applies only to a fine collected
1-20     on or after the effective date of this Act, regardless of whether
1-21     the offense for which the fine is collected occurred before, on, or
1-22     after the effective date of this Act.
1-23           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-24           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-1     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-2     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-3     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-4     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.