78R5945 JTS-F
By: Coleman H.B. No. 1507
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to a motor vehicle registration fee to support trauma
centers to be collected when a motor vehicle is registered.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 502, Transportation Code,
is amended by adding Section 502.1711 to read as follows:
Sec. 502.1711. ADDITIONAL FEE FOR TRAUMA CENTERS. (a) In
addition to the registration fee for registration of a motor
vehicle under this chapter, a fee of $5 shall be collected.
(b) On the first Monday of each month, the county
assessor-collector shall send the fee collected under Subsection
(a) to the comptroller for deposit in the tertiary care account
under Section 46.003, Health and Safety Code.
(c) The county assessor-collector may retain an amount
equal to not more than 10 percent of each fee collected under
Subsection (a). The assessor-collector shall deposit any amount
retained under this subsection in the county treasury to the credit
of the general fund and shall petition the commissioners court for
the amount necessary to administer this section. The commissioners
court may allocate money deposited in the county treasury under
this subsection that is not allocated to the assessor-collector to
administer this section for general purposes of the county.
SECTION 2. Section 502.102(a), Transportation Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(a) Except as provided by Sections 502.103, [and] 502.104,
and 502.1711, this section applies to all fees collected by a county
assessor-collector under this chapter.
SECTION 3. The tertiary care account under Section 46.003,
Health and Safety Code, is re-created as a dedicated account in the
general revenue fund.
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect January 1, 2004, and
applies only to the registration of a motor vehicle that is applied
for on or after that date, but only if the constitutional amendment
proposed by the 78th Legislature, Regular Session, 2003,
authorizing the use of motor vehicle registration fees to support
trauma centers is approved by the voters. If that amendment is not
approved by the voters, this Act has no effect.