Bill Text: TX HB4304 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to appropriations to and revenue of the Automobile Burglary and Theft Prevention Authority.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-25 - Referred to Appropriations [HB4304 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-HB4304-Introduced.html

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86R6829 MTB-F
By: Clardy H.B. No. 4304

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to appropriations to and revenue of the Automobile
Burglary and Theft Prevention Authority.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. The heading to Section 8, Article 4413(37),
Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
Sec. 8. DEPOSIT AND USE OF APPROPRIATED FUNDS.
SECTION 2. Section 8, Article 4413(37), Revised Statutes,
is amended by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
(d) On September 1 of each fiscal year, the comptroller
shall deposit to the credit of the subaccount described by Section
8A of this article:
(1) an amount equal to the total amount appropriated
for that fiscal year to the department for the purposes of this
article; and
(2) an additional amount equal to the estimated cost
for that fiscal year of employee benefits of employees whose
salaries or wages are paid from an appropriation for the purposes of
this article.
SECTION 3. Article 4413(37), Revised Statutes, is amended
by adding Section 8A to read as follows:
Sec. 8A. DEPOSIT AND APPROPRIATION OF REVENUE. All gifts,
grants, and other revenue collected or received by the authority,
including the fee described by Section 10(e) of this article, shall
be deposited to the credit of a subaccount in the Texas Department
of Motor Vehicles fund and may be appropriated only to the
department for purposes of the authority under this article.
SECTION 4. Section 10(e), Article 4413(37), Revised
Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
(e) The [Fifty percent of each] fee collected under
Subsection (b) of this section shall be deposited to the credit of
the subaccount described by Section 8A of this article and may be
appropriated only to the department [authority] for [the] purposes
of the authority under this article.
SECTION 5. Section 1001.151(b), Transportation Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(b) Unless [Except as provided by Subsection (c), and
unless] otherwise dedicated by the Texas Constitution, the fund
consists of:
(1) money appropriated by the legislature to the
department;
(2) money allocated to pay fund accounting costs and
related liabilities of the fund;
(3) gifts, grants, and donations received by the
department;
(4) money required by law to be deposited to the fund;
(5) interest earned on money in the fund; and
(6) other revenue received by the department.
SECTION 6. Section 1001.152, Transportation Code, is
amended to read as follows:
Sec. 1001.152. USE OF MONEY IN FUND. Money that is required
to be deposited in the state treasury to the credit of the Texas
Department of Motor Vehicles fund may be used by the department
only:
(1) to support the department's operations and the
administration and enforcement of the department's functions; [or]
(2) to pay the accounting costs and related
liabilities for the fund, including fringe benefits, workers'
compensation, and unemployment compensation; or
(3) for purposes of the Automobile Burglary and Theft
Prevention Authority under Article 4413(37), Revised Statutes.
SECTION 7. Section 1001.151(c), Transportation Code, is
repealed.
SECTION 8. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.