Bill Text: TX HB1437 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to certain dedicated accounts in the general revenue fund that fund trauma facilities and emergency medical services.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-05-13 - Placed on General State Calendar [HB1437 Detail]

Download: Texas-2015-HB1437-Introduced.html

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84R7916 JSC-D
By: Turner of Harris H.B. No. 1437

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to certain dedicated accounts in the general revenue fund
that fund trauma facilities and emergency medical services.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 542.406(c), Transportation Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(c) Not later than the 60th day after the end of a local
authority's fiscal year, after deducting amounts the local
authority is authorized by Subsection (d) to retain, the local
authority shall:
(1) send 50 percent of the revenue derived from civil
or administrative penalties collected by the local authority under
this section to the comptroller for deposit to the credit of the
designated [regional] trauma facility and emergency medical
services account established under Section 780.003 [782.002],
Health and Safety Code; and
(2) deposit the remainder of the revenue in a special
account in the local authority's treasury that may be used only to
fund traffic safety programs, including pedestrian safety
programs, public safety programs, intersection improvements, and
traffic enforcement.
SECTION 2. Section 707.008(a), Transportation Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(a) Not later than the 60th day after the end of a local
authority's fiscal year, after deducting amounts the local
authority is authorized by Subsection (b) to retain, the local
authority shall:
(1) send 50 percent of the revenue derived from civil
or administrative penalties collected by the local authority under
this section to the comptroller for deposit to the credit of the
designated [regional] trauma facility and emergency medical
services account established under Section 780.003 [782.002],
Health and Safety Code; and
(2) deposit the remainder of the revenue in a special
account in the local authority's treasury that may be used only to
fund traffic safety programs, including pedestrian safety
programs, public safety programs, intersection improvements, and
traffic enforcement.
SECTION 3. The heading to Section 780.002, Health and
Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:
Sec. 780.002. CERTAIN DEPOSITS TO ACCOUNT.
SECTION 4. Section 780.003(b), Health and Safety Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(b) The account is composed of money deposited to the credit
of the account under Sections 542.406 and 707.008, Transportation
Code, and under Section 780.002 of this code[, and the earnings of
the account].
SECTION 5. The following laws are repealed:
(1) Section 780.003(c), Health and Safety Code; and
(2) Chapter 782, Health and Safety Code.
SECTION 6. On the effective date of this Act:
(1) the regional trauma account established under
Chapter 782, Health and Safety Code, is abolished; and
(2) any unexpended and unobligated balance of money in
the regional trauma account is transferred to the designated trauma
facility and emergency medical services account established under
Section 780.003, Health and Safety Code.
SECTION 7. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.