By Madla                                              S.B. No. 1523
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the collection of state funds by a county.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Subchapter D, Chapter 403, Government Code, is
 1-5     amended by adding Section 403.0525 to read as follows:
 1-6           Sec. 403.0525.  COLLECTION OF STATE FUNDS BY COUNTY.  (a)
 1-7     The comptroller shall compile a list of each fee, tax, or fine a
 1-8     county is required to collect for remittance to the state and
 1-9     provide a copy of the list to each county.
1-10           (b)  Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, the
1-11     custodian of the county treasury that holds state funds derived
1-12     from a source described by Subsection (a) shall keep records of the
1-13     amount and nature of the state funds on deposit in the county
1-14     treasury and, not later than the last day of the month following
1-15     each calendar quarter, shall send to the comptroller all state
1-16     funds collected in the preceding calendar quarter.  A county may
1-17     retain 10 percent of the funds as a service fee and may retain the
1-18     interest accrued on the funds if the custodian of a county treasury
1-19     keeps records of the amount and nature of the state funds on
1-20     deposit in the county treasury and remits the funds to the
1-21     comptroller within the period required by this subsection.
1-22           (c)  Subsection (b) does not apply to a motor vehicle
1-23     registration fee collected under Chapter 502, Transportation Code.
1-24           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
 2-1           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-2     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-3     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-4     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-5     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.