Bill Text: TX HB1085 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced

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

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-04 - Referred to Defense & Veterans' Affairs [HB1085 Detail]

Download: Texas-2021-HB1085-Introduced.html

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87R5181 JAM-D
By: Moody H.B. No. 1085

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to waiver programs for certain veterans provided by toll
project entities.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Sections 372.053(a), (a-1), and (a-2),
Transportation Code, are amended to read as follows:
(a) A toll project entity shall [may] establish a discount
program for electronic toll collection customers.
(a-1) A program established under Subsection (a) 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 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 September 1, 2021.