Amend CSHB 3077 (house committee report) by adding the following appropriately numbered SECTIONS to the bill and renumbering subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:
SECTION ____. Section 542.406(c), Transportation Code, is amended to read as follows:
(c) Not later than the 60th day after the end of a local authority's fiscal year, after deducting amounts the local authority is authorized by Subsection (d) to retain, the local authority shall:
(1) send 50 percent of the revenue derived from civil or administrative penalties collected by the local authority under this section to the comptroller for deposit to the credit of the designated [regional] trauma facility and emergency medical services account established under Section 780.003 [782.002], Health and Safety Code; and
(2) deposit the remainder of the revenue in a special account in the local authority's treasury that may be used only to fund traffic safety programs, including pedestrian safety programs, public safety programs, intersection improvements, and traffic enforcement.
SECTION ____. Section 707.008(a), Transportation Code, is amended to read as follows:
(a) Not later than the 60th day after the end of a local authority's fiscal year, after deducting amounts the local authority is authorized by Subsection (b) to retain, the local authority shall:
(1) send 50 percent of the revenue derived from civil or administrative penalties collected by the local authority under this section to the comptroller for deposit to the credit of the designated [regional] trauma facility and emergency medical services account established under Section 780.003 [782.002], Health and Safety Code; and
(2) deposit the remainder of the revenue in a special account in the local authority's treasury that may be used only to fund traffic safety programs, including pedestrian safety programs, public safety programs, intersection improvements, and traffic enforcement.
SECTION ____. The heading to Section 780.002, Health and Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:
Sec. 780.002. CERTAIN DEPOSITS TO ACCOUNT.
SECTION ____. Section 780.003(b), Health and Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:
(b) The account is composed of money deposited to the credit of the account under Sections 542.4031, 542.406, and 707.008, Transportation Code, and under Section 780.002 of this code[, and the earnings of the account].
SECTION ____. The following laws are repealed:
(1) Section 780.003(c), Health and Safety Code; and
(2) Chapter 782, Health and Safety Code, as amended by SB 219, Acts of the 84th Legislature, Regular Session, 2015.
SECTION ____. On the effective date of this Act:
(1) the regional trauma account established under Chapter 782, Health and Safety Code, is abolished; and
(2) any unexpended and unobligated balance of money in the regional trauma account is transferred to the designated trauma facility and emergency medical services account established under Section 780.003, Health and Safety Code.