1-1     By:  Fraser                                            S.B. No. 180
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed December 21, 2000; January 11, 2001,
 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental
 1-4     Relations; February 13, 2001, rereferred to Committee on Finance;
 1-5     March 19, 2001, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
 1-6     Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 10, Nays 0; March 19, 2001,
 1-7     sent to printer.)
 1-8     COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 180                   By:  Fraser
 1-9                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-10                                   AN ACT
1-11     relating to disposition by counties of motor vehicle registration
1-12     fees and sales tax revenue.
1-13           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-14           SECTION 1.  Subsection (c), Section 152.121, Tax Code, is
1-15     amended to read as follows:
1-16           (c)  If the county tax assessor-collector estimates that the
1-17     amount of net collections under Chapter 502, Transportation Code,
1-18     is insufficient to cover the amount of those net collections
1-19     authorized to be retained by a county as a percentage of the tax
1-20     and penalties collected under this chapter, the comptroller shall
1-21     on request of the county tax assessor-collector authorize the
1-22     county to retain a portion of the tax and penalties collected under
1-23     this chapter to cover the deficiency.
1-24           SECTION 2.  Section 502.102, Transportation Code, is amended
1-25     to read as follows:
1-26           Sec. 502.102.  DISPOSITION OF FEES GENERALLY.  (a)  Except as
1-27     provided by Sections 502.103 and 502.104, this section applies to
1-28     all fees collected by a county assessor-collector under this
1-29     chapter.    
1-30           (b)  Each Monday, a county assessor-collector shall credit to
1-31     the county road and bridge fund an amount equal to the net
1-32     collections made during the preceding week until the amount so
1-33     credited for the calendar year equals the total of:
1-34                 (1)  $60,000; and
1-35                 (2)  $350 for each mile of county road maintained by
1-36     the county, according to the most recent information available from
1-37     the department, not to exceed 500 miles[;]
1-38                 [(3)  an amount equal to five percent of the tax and
1-39     penalties collected by the assessor-collector under Chapter 152,
1-40     Tax Code, in the preceding calendar year; and]
1-41                 [(4)  an amount equal to five percent of the tax and
1-42     penalties collected by the comptroller under Section 152.047, Tax
1-43     Code, in the preceding calendar year].
1-44           (c)  If [After] the credits to the county road and bridge
1-45     fund equal or exceed the maximum annual amount that a county may
1-46     credit to the fund [total computed] under Subsection (b), each
1-47     Monday the county assessor-collector shall:
1-48                 (1)  credit to the county road and bridge fund an
1-49     additional amount equal to 50 percent of the net collections made
1-50     during the preceding week, until the amount [so] credited under
1-51     this subdivision for the calendar year equals $125,000; and
1-52                 (2)  send to the department an amount equal to 50
1-53     percent of those collections.
1-54           (d)  If [After] the credits to the county road and bridge
1-55     fund equal or exceed the maximum annual [total] amounts that a
1-56     county may credit to the fund [computed] under Subsections (b) and
1-57     (c)(1), each Monday the county assessor-collector shall credit to
1-58     the county road and bridge fund an additional amount equal to the
1-59     net collections made during the preceding week until the amount
1-60     credited for the calendar year under this subsection equals five
1-61     percent of the amount of tax and penalties collected in the county
1-62     in the preceding calendar year by:
1-63                 (1)  the assessor-collector under Chapter 152, Tax
1-64     Code; and
 2-1                 (2)  the comptroller under Section 152.047, Tax Code.
 2-2           (e)  If the credits to the county road and bridge fund equal
 2-3     the maximum amounts that a county may credit to the fund under
 2-4     Subsections (b), (c)(1), and (d), each Monday the county
 2-5     assessor-collector shall send to the department all collections
 2-6     made during the preceding week.
 2-7           (f) [(e)]  Each Monday the county assessor-collector shall
 2-8     send to the department a copy of each receipt issued the previous
 2-9     week for a registration fee under this chapter.
2-10           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect January 1, 2002.
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