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.