Amend SB 21 on third reading by adding the following
appropriately numbered SECTION to the bill and renumbering
subsequent SECTIONS accordingly:
SECTION ___. (a) Subsection (b), Section 502.1715,
Transportation Code, as added by HB 3588, Acts of the 78th
Legislature, Regular Session, 2003, is amended to read as follows:
(b) Prior to August 31, 2005, fees collected under this
subchapter shall be deposited to the credit of the state highway
fund. The [Subject to appropriation, the] money shall be used by
the Department of Public Safety to:
(1) support the Department of Public Safety's
reengineering of the driver's license system to provide for the
issuance by the Department of Public Safety of a driver's license or
personal identification certificate, not to include use of
biometric information; [and]
(2) establish and maintain a system to support the
driver responsibility program under Chapter 708; and
(3) conduct the feasibility study authorized by
Section 601.450.
(b) The one percent of surcharges collected during the state
fiscal biennium beginning September 1, 2003, by the Department of
Public Safety of the State of Texas under Chapter 708,
Transportation Code, as added by HB 3588, Acts of the 78th
Legislature, Regular Session, 2003, that is deposited to the
general revenue fund and dedicated to the administration of the
driver responsibility program by Subsection (b), Section 780.002,
Health and Safety Code, as added by that bill, is appropriated to
the Department of Public Safety for the state fiscal biennium
beginning September 1, 2003, for the purposes of administering the
driver responsibility program operated by the department under
Chapter 708, Transportation Code, as added by that bill. The number
of full-time equivalent positions (FTE) indicated in the Department
of Public Safety's bill pattern is increased by 11 during the
biennium.
(c) All fees collected during the state fiscal biennium
beginning September 1, 2003, by the Texas Department of
Transportation under Section 502.1715, Transportation Code, as
added by HB 3588, Acts of the 78th Legislature, Regular Session,
2003, are appropriated to the Department of Public Safety of the
State of Texas for the state fiscal biennium beginning September 1,
2003, for the purpose of supporting the Department of Public
Safety's reengineering of the driver's license system. The number
of full-time equivalent positions (FTE) indicated in the Department
of Public Safety's bill pattern is increased by 28 during the
biennium.
(d) Revenue generated under Section 502.1715,
Transportation Code, as added by HB 3588, Acts of the 78th
Legislature, Regular Session, 2003, may be used by the Department
of Public Safety of the State of Texas to make lease payments to the
Master Lease Purchase Program to accomplish the driver's license
reengineering project and the liability insurance feasibility
study.
(e) This section takes effect immediately if this Act
receives a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each
house, as provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.
If this Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate
effect, this section takes effect November 1, 2003.