78S30178 JRJ-F

By:  Lindsay                                                      S.B. No. 11 



A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the enforcement of the collection of certain tolls.               
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Subchapter C, Chapter 284, Transportation Code, 
is amended by adding Section 284.0691 to read as follows:
	Sec. 284.0691.  ADDITIONAL ADMINISTRATIVE COST IN CERTAIN 
COUNTIES.  (a)  A county attorney may impose, in addition to other 
costs, $1 as an administrative cost associated with collecting a 
toll or charge for each event of nonpayment of a required toll or 
charge imposed under Section 284.069 in a county with a population 
of 3.3 million or more.
	(b)  Money collected under Subsection (a) shall be deposited 
in the county treasury in a special fund to be administered by the 
county attorney.  Expenditures from the fund shall be at the sole 
discretion of the attorney and may be used only to defray the 
salaries and expenses of the attorney's office, but in no event may 
the county attorney supplement his or her own salary from the fund.
	SECTION 2.  Sections 284.208(d) and (e), Transportation 
Code, as added by Senate Bill No. 1464, Acts of the 78th 
Legislature, Regular Session, 2003, are repealed.
	SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect immediately if it 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 
Act takes effect on the 91st day after the last day of the 
legislative session.