H.B. No. 3588




AN ACT



relating to the construction, acquisition, financing,
maintenance, management, operation, ownership, and
control of transportation facilities and the progress,
improvement, policing, and safety of transportation
in the state; imposing criminal penalties.


	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:


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	SECTION 11.09.  Section 724.046, Transportation Code,
is amended by adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:


	(c)  Each fee collected under this section shall
be deposited to the credit of the Texas mobility fund.





ARTICLE 20.  GENERAL PROVISIONS;
EFFECTIVE DATE



	SECTION 20.01.  Money required to be deposited to a
specific fund or account by a change in law made by
this Act is exempt from Section 403.095, Government
Code.


	SECTION 20.02.  (a)  The comptroller s establish
the Texas mobility fund debt service account as a dedicated
account within the general revenue fund.


	(b)  Notwithstanding Sections 780.002(a) and (b), Health
and Safety Code, as added by this Act, of the money
allocated to the undedicated portion of the general
revenue fund by Section 780.002(a), Health and Safety
Code, as added by this Act, other than money that may
only be appropriated to the Department of Public Safety,
in fiscal year 2004 the comptroller shall deposit that
money to the credit of the Texas mobility fund debt
service account, which is subject to the provisions
of Subsection (d).


	(c)  Notwithstanding Section 542.4031(g)(1), Transportation
Code, as added by this Act, of the money allocated
to the undedicated portion of the general revenue fund
in Section 542.4031(g)(1), Transportation Code, in
fiscal year 2004 the comptroller shall deposit that
money to the credit of the Texas mobility fund debt
service account, which is subject to the provisions
of Subsection (d).


	(d)  Funds deposited to the Texas mobility fund debt
service account pursuant to Subsections (b) and (c)
may be transferred to the Texas mobility fund upon
certification by the Texas Transportation Commission
to the comptroller that a payment is due under an obligation
pursuant to Section 49-k, Article 3, Texas Constitution.
 Funds in the Texas mobility fund debt service account
are not appropriated in the state fiscal year ending
August 31, 2004.


	(e)  Notwithstanding Sections 521.058, 521.313(c), 521.3466(e),
521.427, 522.029(i), 524.051(c), 548.508, 644.153(i),
and 724.046(c), Transportation Code, as added by this
Act, to the extent that those sections allocate funds
to the Texas mobility fund, in fiscal year 2004 the
comptroller shall deposit those funds to the credit
of the general revenue fund instead of to the credit
of the Texas mobility fund.


	SECTION 20.03.  Any new court cost created by this Act
takes effect September 1, 2003.  Section 51.607, Government
Code, as added by Senate Bill 325, 78th Legislature,
Regular Session, does not apply to court costs imposed
under this Act.


	SECTION 20.04.  Except as otherwise provided by this
Act, this Act takes effect September 1, 2003.
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President of the Senate Speaker of the House

I certify that H.B. No. 3588 was passed by the House on May 10, 2003, by the following vote: Yeas 137, Nays 3, 2 present, not voting; that the House refused to concur in Senate amendments to H.B. No. 3588 on May 30, 2003, and requested the appointment of a conference committee to consider the differences between the two houses; and that the House adopted the conference committee report on H.B. No. 3588 on June 1, 2003, by the following vote: Yeas 146, Nays 0, 1 present, not voting; and that the House adopted S.C.R. No. 65 authorizing certain corrections in H.B. No. 3588 on June 2, 2003, by a non-record vote.

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Chief Clerk of the House

I certify that H.B. No. 3588 was passed by the Senate, with amendments, on May 28, 2003, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0; at the request of the House, the Senate appointed a conference committee to consider the differences between the two houses; and that the Senate adopted the conference committee report on H.B. No. 3588 on June 1, 2003, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0; and that the Senate adopted S.C.R. No. 65 authorizing certain corrections in H.B. No. 3588 on June 1, 2003.

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Secretary of the Senate

APPROVED: __________________

Date

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Governor