By Giddings H.B. No. 3551
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the disposition of the proceeds from the Read to
1-3 Succeed license plate.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter F, Chapter 502.292(e), Transportation
1-6 Code, is amended as follows:
1-7 (e) The department shall deposit each fee collected under
1-8 Subsection (c)(2) to the credit of an account in the general
1-9 revenue fund to be known as the "Read to Succeed" account. Money
1-10 from the account may be used only [to supplement appropriated funds
1-11 in implementing the requirements under Section 28.006, Education
1-12 Code.] for the purpose of providing educational materials for
1-13 public school libraries. The account is composed of:
1-14 (1) money required to be deposited to the credit of
1-15 the account under this subsection; and
1-16 (2) donations made to the account.
1-17 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-18 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-1 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.