Amend CSHB 7 (house committee report) by adding the following appropriately numbered SECTION to the bill and renumbering subsequent SECTIONS of the bill appropriately:

SECTION ____.  Section 10(e), Article 4413(37), Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

(e)  The Automobile Burglary and Theft Prevention Authority trust fund is created as a trust fund in the state treasury.  Fifty percent of each fee collected under Subsection (b) shall be deposited to the credit of the trust fund. The comptroller shall administer the trust fund as trustee on behalf of the authority. The comptroller shall allocate all money in the trust fund [may be appropriated only to the authority] for the purposes of this article.