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1	1	84R7916 JSC-D
2	2	By: Turner of Harris H.B. No. 1437
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5	5	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
6	6	AN ACT
7	7	relating to certain dedicated accounts in the general revenue fund
8	8	that fund trauma facilities and emergency medical services.
9	9	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
10	10	SECTION 1. Section 542.406(c), Transportation Code, is
11	11	amended to read as follows:
12	12	(c) Not later than the 60th day after the end of a local
13	13	authority's fiscal year, after deducting amounts the local
14	14	authority is authorized by Subsection (d) to retain, the local
15	15	authority shall:
16	16	(1) send 50 percent of the revenue derived from civil
17	17	or administrative penalties collected by the local authority under
18	18	this section to the comptroller for deposit to the credit of the
19	19	designated [regional] trauma facility and emergency medical
20	20	services account established under Section 780.003 [782.002],
21	21	Health and Safety Code; and
22	22	(2) deposit the remainder of the revenue in a special
23	23	account in the local authority's treasury that may be used only to
24	24	fund traffic safety programs, including pedestrian safety
25	25	programs, public safety programs, intersection improvements, and
26	26	traffic enforcement.
27	27	SECTION 2. Section 707.008(a), Transportation Code, is
28	28	amended to read as follows:
29	29	(a) Not later than the 60th day after the end of a local
30	30	authority's fiscal year, after deducting amounts the local
31	31	authority is authorized by Subsection (b) to retain, the local
32	32	authority shall:
33	33	(1) send 50 percent of the revenue derived from civil
34	34	or administrative penalties collected by the local authority under
35	35	this section to the comptroller for deposit to the credit of the
36	36	designated [regional] trauma facility and emergency medical
37	37	services account established under Section 780.003 [782.002],
38	38	Health and Safety Code; and
39	39	(2) deposit the remainder of the revenue in a special
40	40	account in the local authority's treasury that may be used only to
41	41	fund traffic safety programs, including pedestrian safety
42	42	programs, public safety programs, intersection improvements, and
43	43	traffic enforcement.
44	44	SECTION 3. The heading to Section 780.002, Health and
45	45	Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:
46	46	Sec. 780.002. CERTAIN DEPOSITS TO ACCOUNT.
47	47	SECTION 4. Section 780.003(b), Health and Safety Code, is
48	48	amended to read as follows:
49	49	(b) The account is composed of money deposited to the credit
50	50	of the account under Sections 542.406 and 707.008, Transportation
51	51	Code, and under Section 780.002 of this code[, and the earnings of
52	52	the account].
53	53	SECTION 5. The following laws are repealed:
54	54	(1) Section 780.003(c), Health and Safety Code; and
55	55	(2) Chapter 782, Health and Safety Code.
56	56	SECTION 6. On the effective date of this Act:
57	57	(1) the regional trauma account established under
58	58	Chapter 782, Health and Safety Code, is abolished; and
59	59	(2) any unexpended and unobligated balance of money in
60	60	the regional trauma account is transferred to the designated trauma
61	61	facility and emergency medical services account established under
62	62	Section 780.003, Health and Safety Code.
63	63	SECTION 7. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.