Bill Text: TX HB1573 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to authorizing an optional county fee on vehicle registration in certain counties.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/13 [HB1573 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB1573-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 1573 |
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relating to authorizing an optional county fee on vehicle | ||
registration in certain counties. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Sections 502.402(a) and (e), Transportation | ||
Code, are amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) This section applies only to: | ||
(1) a county: | ||
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States; | ||
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300,000; and | ||
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population of less than 300,000; and | ||
(2) a county that has a population of more than 1.5 | ||
million that is coterminous with a regional mobility authority. | ||
(e) The additional fee shall be collected for a vehicle when | ||
other fees imposed under this chapter are collected. The fee | ||
revenue collected shall be sent to the regional mobility authority | ||
of the county to fund long-term transportation projects in the | ||
county that are consistent with the purposes specified by Section | ||
7-a, Article VIII, Texas Constitution. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 502.402, Transportation Code, as amended | ||
by this Act, applies only to the fee for a registration period | ||
beginning on or after the effective date of this Act. A fee for a | ||
registration period beginning before the effective date of this Act | ||
is governed by the law in effect when the registration period began, | ||
and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 1573 was passed by the House on May 8, | ||
2013, by the following vote: Yeas 128, Nays 19, 2 present, not | ||
voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B. | ||
No. 1573 on May 23, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 129, Nays 15, | ||
2 present, not voting. | ||
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Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 1573 was passed by the Senate, with | ||
amendments, on May 21, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 20, Nays | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: __________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |