1-1 By: Giddings (Senate Sponsor - Ratliff) H.B. No. 3551
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 10, 1999;
1-3 May 10, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Education; May 14, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:
1-5 Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 14, 1999, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to disposition of proceeds from read to succeed license
1-9 plates.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Section 502.292(e), Transportation Code, as added
1-12 by Chapter 397, Acts of the 75th Legislature, Regular Session,
1-13 1997, is amended to read as follows:
1-14 (e) The department shall deposit each fee collected under
1-15 Subsection (c)(2) to the credit of an account in the general
1-16 revenue fund to be known as the "Read to Succeed" account. Money
1-17 from the account may be used only for the purpose of providing
1-18 educational materials for public school libraries [to supplement
1-19 appropriated funds in implementing the requirements under Section
1-20 28.006, Education Code]. The account is composed of:
1-21 (1) money required to be deposited to the credit of
1-22 the account under this subsection; and
1-23 (2) donations made to the account.
1-24 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-25 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-26 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-27 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-28 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-29 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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