76R15650 SMJ-D                          
         By Fraser                                             S.B. No. 1068
         Substitute the following for S.B. No. 1068:
         By Oliveira                                       C.S.S.B. No. 1068
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to disposition by counties of motor vehicle registration
 1-3     fees and sales tax revenue.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 152.121(c), Tax Code, is amended to read
 1-6     as follows:
 1-7           (c)  If the county tax assessor-collector estimates that the
 1-8     amount of net collections under Chapter 502, Transportation Code,
 1-9     is insufficient to cover the amount of those net collections
1-10     authorized to be retained by a county as a percentage of the tax
1-11     and penalties collected under this chapter, the comptroller shall
1-12     on request of the county tax assessor-collector authorize the
1-13     county to retain a portion of the tax and penalties collected under
1-14     this chapter to cover the deficiency.
1-15           SECTION 2.  Sections 502.102(b), (c), and (d), Transportation
1-16     Code, are amended to read as follows:
1-17           (b)  Each Monday, a county assessor-collector shall credit to
1-18     the county road and bridge fund an amount equal to the net
1-19     collections made during the preceding week until the amount so
1-20     credited for the calendar year equals the total of:
1-21                 (1)  $60,000;
1-22                 (2)  $350 for each mile of county road maintained by
1-23     the county, according to the most recent information available from
 2-1     the department, not to exceed 500 miles; and
 2-2                 (3)  [an amount equal to five percent of the tax and
 2-3     penalties collected by the assessor-collector under Chapter 152,
 2-4     Tax Code, in the preceding calendar year; and]
 2-5                 [(4)  an amount equal to five percent of the tax and
 2-6     penalties collected by the comptroller under Section 152.047, Tax
 2-7     Code, in the preceding calendar year.]
 2-8           [(c)  After the credits to the county road and bridge fund
 2-9     equal the total computed under Subsection (b), each Monday the
2-10     county assessor-collector shall:]
2-11                 [(1)  credit to the county road and bridge fund] an
2-12     amount equal to 50 percent of the net collections made during the
2-13     preceding week, until the amount so credited for the calendar year
2-14     equals $125,000[; and]
2-15                 [(2)  send to the department an amount equal to 50
2-16     percent of those collections].
2-17           (c)  After the credits to the county road and bridge fund
2-18     equal the total computed under Subsection (b), each Monday the
2-19     county assessor-collector shall credit to the county road and
2-20     bridge fund an amount equal to five percent of the tax and
2-21     penalties collected in the preceding calendar year by:
2-22                 (1)  the assessor-collector under Chapter 152, Tax
2-23     Code; and
2-24                 (2)  the comptroller under Section 152.047, Tax Code.
2-25           (d)  After the credits to the county road and bridge fund
2-26     equal the total amounts computed under Subsections (b) and (c)
2-27     [(c)(1)], each Monday the county assessor-collector shall send to
 3-1     the department all collections made during the preceding week.
 3-2           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect January 1, 2000.
 3-3           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
 3-4     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 3-5     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 3-6     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 3-7     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.