By Burnam H.B. No. 3666
76R7793 JD-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the disposition of the optional county fee for
1-3 registering a motor vehicle.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 502.103, Transportation Code, is amended
1-6 to read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 502.103. DISPOSITION OF OPTIONAL COUNTY ROAD AND BRIDGE
1-8 FEE. Each Monday a county assessor-collector shall apportion the
1-9 collections for the preceding week for a fee imposed under Section
1-10 502.172 by:
1-11 (1) sending to the appropriate municipality an amount
1-12 equal to $2 multiplied by the number of vehicles registered by
1-13 persons residing in that municipality; and
1-14 (2) from the remainder:
1-15 (A) crediting an amount equal to 97 percent of
1-16 the collections to the county road and bridge fund; and
1-17 (B) [(2)] sending to the department an amount
1-18 equal to three percent of the collections to defray the
1-19 department's costs of administering Section 502.172.
1-20 SECTION 2. Section 502.172, Transportation Code, is amended
1-21 by amending Subsection (f) and adding Subsection (h) to read as
1-22 follows:
1-23 (f) The department shall collect the additional fee on a
1-24 vehicle that is owned by a resident of a county imposing a fee
2-1 under this section and that, under this chapter, must be registered
2-2 directly with the department. Except as provided by Subsection
2-3 (h), the [The] department shall send all fees collected [for a
2-4 county] under this subsection to the county treasurer to be
2-5 credited to the county road and bridge fund.
2-6 (h) Of each fee collected by a county assessor-collector
2-7 under Subsection (e) from an owner who is a resident of a
2-8 municipality, or the part of a municipality, that is located in
2-9 the county, the assessor-collector shall send $2 to that
2-10 municipality. Of each fee collected by the department under
2-11 Subsection (f) from an owner who is a resident of a municipality in
2-12 this state, the department shall send $2 to that municipality. A
2-13 municipality may use money received under this subsection only for
2-14 transportation projects located in that municipality.
2-15 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
2-16 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
2-17 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-18 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-19 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-20 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.