Bill Text: TX HB41 | 2013 | 83rd Legislature 1st Special Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the allocation of certain fuel-related tax revenue.
Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-06-17 - Referred to Appropriations [HB41 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB41-Introduced.html
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| By: Pickett | H.B. No. 41 | |
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| relating to the allocation of certain fuel-related tax revenue. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 43.001(b), Education Code, is amended to | ||
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| (b) The available school fund, which shall be apportioned | ||
| annually to each county according to its scholastic population, | ||
| consists of: | ||
| (1) the distributions to the fund from the permanent | ||
| school fund as provided by Section 5(a), Article VII, Texas | ||
| Constitution; | ||
| (2) one-fourth of all revenue derived from all state | ||
| occupation taxes, exclusive of delinquencies and cost of | ||
| collection; | ||
| (3) the amounts transferred to the fund from the | ||
| general revenue fund under Sections 49-g(c), (d), and (e), Article | ||
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| (4) all other appropriations to the available school | ||
| fund made by the legislature for public school purposes. | ||
| SECTION 2. Sections 162.502(b) and (c), Tax Code, are | ||
| amended to read as follows: | ||
| (b) The comptroller shall allocate and deposit these | ||
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| (c) Money deposited to the credit of the general revenue | ||
| fund under Subsection (b) [ |
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| Parks and Wildlife Department for any lawful purpose. | ||
| SECTION 3. Section 162.503(a), Tax Code, is amended to read | ||
| as follows: | ||
| (a) On or before the fifth workday after the end of each | ||
| month, the comptroller, after making all deductions for refund | ||
| purposes and for the amounts allocated under Sections 162.502 and | ||
| 162.5025, shall allocate the net remainder of the taxes collected | ||
| under Subchapter B as follows: | ||
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| credit of the state highway fund for the construction and | ||
| maintenance of the state road system under existing law; and | ||
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| comptroller shall: | ||
| (A) deposit to the credit of the county and road | ||
| district highway fund all the remaining tax receipts until a total | ||
| of $7,300,000 has been credited to the fund each fiscal year; and | ||
| (B) after the amount required to be deposited to | ||
| the county and road district highway fund has been deposited, | ||
| deposit to the credit of the state highway fund the remainder of the | ||
| one-fourth of the tax, the amount to be provided on the basis of | ||
| allocations made each month of the fiscal year, which sum shall be | ||
| used by the Texas Department of Transportation for the | ||
| construction, improvement, and maintenance of farm-to-market | ||
| roads. | ||
| SECTION 4. Section 162.504(a), Tax Code, is amended to read | ||
| as follows: | ||
| (a) On or before the fifth workday after the end of each | ||
| month, the comptroller, after making deductions for refund | ||
| purposes, for the administration and enforcement of this chapter, | ||
| and for the amounts allocated under Section 162.5025, shall deposit | ||
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| the credit of the state highway fund. | ||
| SECTION 5. Section 162.505, Tax Code, is amended to read as | ||
| follows: | ||
| Sec. 162.505. ALLOCATION OF LIQUEFIED GAS TAX. On or before | ||
| the fifth workday after the end of each month, the comptroller, | ||
| after making deductions for refund purposes and for the | ||
| administration and enforcement of this chapter, shall deposit | ||
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| the credit of the state highway fund. | ||
| SECTION 6. This Act takes effect on the date on which the | ||
| constitutional amendment proposed by the 83rd Legislature, 1st | ||
| Called Session, 2013, to provide for revenue from motor fuel taxes | ||
| to be used solely for policing, maintaining, constructing, and | ||
| acquiring rights-of-way for public roadways and to provide for the | ||
| transfer of certain general revenue to the available school fund | ||
| and the economic stabilization fund takes effect. If that | ||
| amendment is not approved by the voters, this Act has no effect. | ||
