Bill Text: TX HB650 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to waiver programs for veterans provided by toll project entities.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-02-19 - Referred to Defense & Veterans' Affairs [HB650 Detail]

Download: Texas-2015-HB650-Introduced.html

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84R3236 JAM-D
By: Isaac H.B. No. 650

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to waiver programs for veterans provided by toll project
entities.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 372.053, Transportation Code, is amended
to read as follows:
Sec. 372.053. VETERAN WAIVER [DISCOUNT] PROGRAM. (a) A
toll project entity shall [may] establish a waiver [discount]
program for electronic toll collection customers that includes [.
The program must 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
Subchapter D, Chapter 504 [504.315(f) or (g)].
(b) The legislature may appropriate funds from the general
revenue fund to a toll project entity to defray the cost of
providing free [or discounted] use of the entity's toll project
under this section.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.