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	Amend SB 1886 (house committee printing) by adding the 
following appropriately numbered SECTIONS to the bill to read as 
follows and renumbering subsequent SECTIONS accordingly:
	SECTION ____. (a) Subchapter B, Chapter 162, Tax Code, is 
amended by adding Section 162.1021 to read as follows:
	Sec. 162.1021.  TEMPORARY REDUCTION IN TAX RATE.  (a)  Not 
withstanding any other provision of this chapter, the tax imposed 
by this subchapter is reduced from 20 cents for each net gallon or 
fractional part on which the tax is imposed under Section 162.101 to 
zero cents for each net gallon or fractional part on which the tax 
is imposed under Section 162.101.
	(b)  A distributor or dealer who makes sales of gasoline at 
retail shall decrease the price of gasoline sold during the period 
in which this section is in effect to reflect the reduction in the 
tax.  If a distributor or dealer paid tax on the gasoline sold 
during that period, the distributor or dealer is entitled to a 
credit or refund of the amount of taxes paid.
	(c)  If a distributor or dealer fails to decrease the price 
of gasoline as required by Subsection (b), the person is liable to 
the comptroller for a penalty in an amount equal to the total amount 
the person collected from the sale of gasoline during the period 
this section is in effect in excess of the amount the person should 
have collected during that period.
	(d)  A distributor or dealer who fails to decrease the price 
of gasoline as required by Subsection (a) commits an offense. An 
offense under this section is a Class B misdemeanor.
	(e)  The comptroller shall adopt rules to implement this 
section.     
	(f)  The attorney general's office shall investigate a 
complaint relating to a violation of this section and may petition a 
district court for appropriate remedies.
	(b)  This section expires on the ninety-first day following 
the effective date of this section.
	(c)  Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, this 
section takes effect immediately if this Act receives a vote of 
two-thirds of all members elected to each house, as provided by 
Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this Act does not 
receive the vote necessary for this section to take effect 
immediately, this section takes effect on the 91st day after the 
last day of the legislative session.
	SECTION ____. There is appropriated from the general revenue 
fund for the state fiscal year beginning September 1, 2007, an 
amount sufficient to reimburse the available school fund and the 
state highway fund for the amount of revenue the state does not 
collect from the temporary decrease in the state gasoline tax 
required by Section 162.1021, Tax Code.