1-1     By:  Shapleigh                                        S.B. No. 1108
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed March 10, 1999; March 11, 1999, read
 1-3     first time and referred to Special Committee on Border Affairs;
 1-4     April 12, 1999, reported favorably, as amended, by the following
 1-5     vote:  Yeas 5, Nays 0; April 12, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6     COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1                                By:  Lucio
 1-7           Amend S.B. No. 1108, in SECTION 1, on page 1, line 23, after
 1-8     the word "deposited" and before the word "in", by inserting "for
 1-9     the purposes of road maintenance".
1-10                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-11                                   AN ACT
1-12     relating to the disposition of the proceeds of fines collected for
1-13     overweight vehicles.
1-14           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-15           SECTION 1.  Subsection (g), Section 621.506, Transportation
1-16     Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-17           (g)  A governmental entity that collects a fine under this
1-18     section for an offense involving a vehicle having a gross weight
1-19     that is more than 5,000 pounds heavier than the vehicle's allowable
1-20     gross weight shall send an amount equal to 50 percent of the fine
1-21     to the comptroller unless the offense occurred within 20 miles of
1-22     an international border in which event the entire amount of the
1-23     fine shall be deposited in:
1-24                 (1)  the municipal treasury, if the fine was imposed by
1-25     a municipal court; or
1-26                 (2)  the county treasury, if the fine was imposed by a
1-27     justice court.
1-28           SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act to Subsection
1-29     (g), Section 621.506, Transportation Code, applies only to a fine
1-30     collected on or after the effective date of this Act, regardless of
1-31     whether the offense for which the fine is collected occurred
1-32     before, on, or after the effective date of this Act.
1-33           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-34           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-35     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-36     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-37     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-38     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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