84R4470 MTB-D
By: Muñoz, Jr. H.B. No. 3520
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the disposition of permit fees for the movement of
oversize or overweight vehicles on certain highways.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 623.323, Transportation Code, as added
by Chapter 635 (H.B. 474), Acts of the 83rd Legislature, Regular
Session, 2013, is amended by amending Subsection (b) and adding
Subsection (c) to read as follows:
(b) Of each fee [Fees] collected under Subsection (a), the
authority:
(1) may retain 15 percent for administrative costs;
and
(2) shall send to be used only for the construction and
maintenance of the roads described by or designated under this
subchapter:
(A) 60 percent [Section 623.322 and for the
authority's administrative costs, which may not exceed 15 percent
of the fees collected. The authority shall make payments] to the
Texas Department of Transportation; and
(B) 25 percent to the municipalities responsible
for maintenance of those roads [to provide funds for the
maintenance of roads and highways subject to this subchapter].
(c) The distribution made to a municipality under
Subsection (b)(2)(B) is based on the percentage of miles of road
maintained by the municipality as compared to the total miles of
road maintained by all municipalities.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2015.