| 1 | 1 | | By: Heflin H.B. No. 2613 |
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| 4 | 4 | | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED |
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| 5 | 5 | | AN ACT |
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| 6 | 6 | | relating to the allocation of gasoline tax to county roads. |
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| 7 | 7 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 8 | 8 | | SECTION 1. Subsection 162.503(3), Tax Code, is amended to |
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| 9 | 9 | | read as follows: |
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| 10 | 10 | | (3) from the remaining one-fourth of the tax the |
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| 11 | 11 | | comptroller shall: |
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| 12 | 12 | | (A) deposit to the credit of the county and road |
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| 13 | 13 | | district highway fund all the remaining tax receipts until a total |
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| 14 | 14 | | of [$7,300,000] $15,000,000 has been credited to the fund each |
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| 15 | 15 | | fiscal year and deposit to the credit of the special county road |
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| 16 | 16 | | assistance program, established by Subchapter D, Chapter 615, Local |
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| 17 | 17 | | Government Code, a total of $15,000,000 each fiscal year; and |
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| 18 | 18 | | (B) after the amount required to be deposited to |
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| 19 | 19 | | the county and road district highway fund and the special county |
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| 20 | 20 | | road assistance program has been deposited, deposit to the credit |
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| 21 | 21 | | of the state highway fund the remainder of the one-fourth of the |
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| 22 | 22 | | tax, the amount to be provided on the basis of allocations made each |
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| 23 | 23 | | month of the fiscal year, which sum shall be used by the Texas |
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| 24 | 24 | | Department of Transportation for the construction, improvement, |
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| 25 | 25 | | and maintenance of farm-to-market roads. |
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| 26 | 26 | | SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives |
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| 27 | 27 | | a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as |
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| 28 | 28 | | provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this |
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| 29 | 29 | | Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this |
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| 30 | 30 | | Act takes effect September 1, 2009. |
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