83S20114 JXC-D
 
  By: Campbell S.B. No. 36
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the use of money in the state highway fund.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Article 102.020(h), Code of Criminal Procedure,
  is amended to read as follows:
         (h)  Except as provided by Subsection (h-1), the comptroller
  shall deposit [35 percent of] the funds received under this article
  in the state treasury to the credit of the [state highway fund and
  65 percent of the funds received under this article to the credit of
  the] criminal justice planning account in the general revenue fund.
         SECTION 2.  Section 411.0205(g), Government Code, is amended
  to read as follows:
         (g)  Funds collected under this section shall be deposited in
  the state treasury to the credit of the general revenue [state
  highway] fund, and money deposited to the general revenue [state
  highway] fund under this section may be used only to defray the cost
  of administering this section or Subchapter G.
         SECTION 3.  Section 411.145(c), Government Code, is amended
  to read as follows:
         (c)  A fee collected under this section shall be deposited in
  the state treasury to the credit of the general revenue [state
  highway] fund, and money deposited to the general revenue [state
  highway] fund under this section and under Articles 42.12 and
  102.020(h), Code of Criminal Procedure, may be used only to defray
  the cost of administering this subchapter and Section 411.0205.
         SECTION 4.  Section 222.001, Transportation Code, is amended
  by amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (c) to read as
  follows:
         (a)  Money that is required to be used for public roadways by
  the Texas Constitution or federal law and that is deposited in the
  state treasury to the credit of the state highway fund, including
  money deposited to the credit of the state highway fund under Title
  23, United States Code, may be used only:
               (1)  to improve the state highway system; or
               (2)  to mitigate adverse environmental effects that
  result directly from construction or maintenance of a state highway
  by the department[; or
               [(3)     by the Department of Public Safety to police the
  state highway system and to administer state laws relating to
  traffic and safety on public roads].
         (c)  The legislature may not appropriate money from the state
  highway fund to an agency other than the commission, the
  department, or the Department of Motor Vehicles unless the
  appropriation is for constructing, maintaining, or acquiring
  rights-of-way for public roadways.
         SECTION 5.  Section 501.100(e), Transportation Code, is
  amended to read as follows:
         (e)  On or after the 31st day after the date the department
  receives a rebuilder fee under Subsection (d), the department shall
  deposit [$50 of] the fee to the credit of the [state highway fund to
  be used only by the Department of Public Safety to enforce this
  chapter and $15 to the credit of the] general revenue fund.
         SECTION 6.  Section 502.357(b), Transportation Code, is
  amended to read as follows:
         (b)  Fees collected under this section shall be deposited to
  the credit of the state highway fund.  [Subject to appropriations,
  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, to include use of image
  comparison technology;
               [(2)     establish and maintain a system to support the
  driver responsibility program under Chapter 708; and
               [(3)     make lease payments to the master lease purchase
  program for the financing of the driver's license reengineering
  project.]
         SECTION 7.  Section 411.013(c), Government Code, is
  repealed.
         SECTION 8.  Sections 502.357(c) and (d), Transportation
  Code, are repealed.
         SECTION 9.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2015, but only
  if the constitutional amendment proposed by the 83rd Legislature,
  2nd Called Session, 2013, prescribing the purposes for which
  revenues from motor vehicle registration fees, certain motor
  vehicle-related taxes, and certain revenues received from the
  federal government may be used is approved by the voters. If that
  amendment is not approved by the voters, this Act has no effect.