Bill Text: TX SB1091 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to vehicles eligible for veteran toll discount programs.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-14 - Effective immediately [SB1091 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB1091-Enrolled.html
| S.B. No. 1091 | ||
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| relating to vehicles eligible for veteran toll discount programs. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 372.053, Transportation Code, is amended | ||
| by amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsections (a-1) and (a-2) | ||
| to read as follows: | ||
| (a) A toll project entity may establish a discount program | ||
| for electronic toll collection customers. | ||
| (a-1) A [ |
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| include free or discounted use of the entity's toll project by an | ||
| electronic toll collection customer whose account relates to a | ||
| vehicle registered under Section 504.202 or 504.315(f) or (g). | ||
| (a-2) A toll project entity may limit to no more than two the | ||
| number of transponders issued to a participant in the entity's | ||
| waiver program for which free or discounted use of the entity's toll | ||
| project is provided under Subsection (a-1). A toll project entity | ||
| that adopts a limit under this subsection shall allow a participant | ||
| to be issued one extra transponder on a demonstration of hardship by | ||
| the participant, as determined by the entity. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
| provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
| Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
| Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1091 passed the Senate on | ||
| April 11, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0; and that | ||
| the Senate concurred in House amendments on May 23, 2019, by the | ||
| following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 1. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1091 passed the House, with | ||
| amendments, on May 21, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 147, | ||
| Nays 0, one present not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| Approved: | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
