By: Shapleigh, Truan, Lucio S.B. No. 1108 Zaffirini A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to the disposition of the proceeds of fines collected for 1-2 overweight vehicles. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Subsection (g), Section 621.506, Transportation 1-5 Code, is amended to read as follows: 1-6 (g) A governmental entity that collects a fine under this 1-7 section for an offense involving a vehicle having a gross weight 1-8 that is more than 5,000 pounds heavier than the vehicle's allowable 1-9 gross weight shall send an amount equal to 50 percent of the fine 1-10 to the comptroller unless the offense occurred within 20 miles of 1-11 an international border in which event the entire amount of the 1-12 fine shall be deposited for the purposes of road maintenance in: 1-13 (1) the municipal treasury, if the fine was imposed by 1-14 a municipal court; or 1-15 (2) the county treasury, if the fine was imposed by a 1-16 justice court. 1-17 SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act to Subsection 1-18 (g), Section 621.506, Transportation Code, applies only to a fine 1-19 collected on or after the effective date of this Act, regardless of 1-20 whether the offense for which the fine is collected occurred 1-21 before, on, or after the effective date of this Act. 1-22 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 1-23 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 1-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-1 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-2 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-3 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.