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. 1-35 * * * * *