By Giddings                                           H.B. No. 3551
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to disposition of proceeds from read to succeed license
 1-3     plates.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 502.292(e), Transportation Code, as added
 1-6     by Chapter 397, Acts of the 75th Legislature, Regular Session,
 1-7     1997, is amended to read as follows:
 1-8           (e)  The department shall deposit each fee collected under
 1-9     Subsection (c)(2) to the credit of an account in the general
1-10     revenue fund to be known as the "Read to Succeed" account.  Money
1-11     from the account may be used only for the purpose of providing
1-12     educational materials for public school libraries [to supplement
1-13     appropriated funds in implementing the requirements under Section
1-14     28.006, Education Code].  The account is composed of:
1-15                 (1)  money required to be deposited to the credit of
1-16     the account under this subsection; and
1-17                 (2)  donations made to the account.
1-18           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-19           SECTION 3.  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.