By:  Haywood                                          S.B. No. 1584
         99S0579/1                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                       AN ACT
 1-1     relating to appropriating a portion of the fees collected for
 1-2     driver's license information to the Department of Public Safety.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Subsection (d), Section 521.055, Transportation
 1-5     Code, is amended to read as follows:
 1-6           (d)  Fifty cents of each fee collected under Subsection (c)
 1-7     is [shall be deposited in a special account in the general revenue
 1-8     fund that may be] appropriated [only] to the department for the
 1-9     administration of this chapter and Chapter 522.
1-10           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-11           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-12     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-13     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-14     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-15     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.