By: Hinojosa S.B. No. 321
(In the Senate - Filed January 16, 2015; February 2, 2015,
read first time and referred to Committee on Transportation;
April 20, 2015, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 5, Nays 4; April 20, 2015,
sent to printer.)
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COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 321 By: Huffines
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the amount of money transferred monthly from the state
highway fund to the Texas emissions reduction plan fund.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Sections 501.138(b-1) and (b-2), Transportation
Code, are amended to read as follows:
(b-1) Fees collected under Subsection (b) to be sent to the
comptroller shall be deposited to the credit of the Texas Mobility
Fund[, except that $5 of each fee imposed under Subsection (a)(1)
and deposited on or after September 1, 2008, and before September 1,
2015, shall be deposited to the credit of the Texas emissions
reduction plan fund].
(b-2) The comptroller shall establish a record of the amount
of the fees deposited to the credit of the Texas Mobility Fund under
Subsection (b-1) that are attributable to applicants described by
Subsection (b)(3)(A). On or before the fifth workday of each
month, the Texas Department of Transportation shall remit to the
comptroller for deposit to the credit of the Texas emissions
reduction plan fund an amount of money equal to the amount of those
[the] fees deposited [by the comptroller to the credit of the Texas
Mobility Fund under Subsection (b-1)] in the preceding month. The
Texas Department of Transportation shall use for remittance to the
comptroller as required by this subsection money in the state
highway fund that is not required to be used for a purpose specified
by Section 7-a, Article VIII, Texas Constitution, and may not use
for that remittance money received by this state under the
congestion mitigation and air quality improvement program
established under 23 U.S.C. Section 149.
SECTION 2. The Texas Department of Transportation is not
required to comply with Section 501.138(b-2), Transportation Code,
as amended by this Act, until October 1, 2015. Before October 1,
2015, the Texas Department of Transportation shall comply with
Section 501.138(b-2), Transportation Code, as it existed on August
31, 2015, and the former law is continued in effect for that
purpose.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.
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