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.