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. 1-39 * * * * *