1-1     By:  Pickett, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Shapleigh)     H.B. No. 3467
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House May 10, 1999;
 1-3     May 10, 1999, read first time and referred to Special Committee on
 1-4     Border Affairs; May 13, 1999, reported favorably by the following
 1-5     vote:  Yeas 5, Nays 0; May 13, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to the disposition of the proceeds of fines collected for
 1-9     overweight vehicles.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Section 621.506(g), Transportation Code, is
1-12     amended to read as follows:
1-13           (g)  A governmental entity that collects a fine under this
1-14     section for an offense involving a vehicle having a gross weight
1-15     that is more than 5,000 pounds heavier than the vehicle's allowable
1-16     gross weight shall send an amount equal to 50 percent of the fine
1-17     to the comptroller unless the offense occurred within 20 miles of
1-18     an international border in which event the entire amount of the
1-19     fine shall be deposited in:
1-20                 (1)  the municipal treasury, if the fine was imposed by
1-21     a municipal court; or
1-22                 (2)  the county treasury, if the fine was imposed by a
1-23     justice court.
1-24           SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act to Section
1-25     621.506(g), Transportation Code, applies only to a fine collected
1-26     on or after the effective date of this Act, regardless of whether
1-27     the offense for which the fine is collected occurred before, on, or
1-28     after the effective date of this Act.
1-29           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-30           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-31     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-32     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-33     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-34     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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