Bill Text: TX HB1959 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to alternative registration technologies for commercial motor vehicles.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2017-06-15 - Effective immediately [HB1959 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB1959-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 1959 |
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relating to alternative registration technologies for commercial | ||
motor vehicles. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Chapter 1003, Transportation Code, is amended by | ||
adding Sections 1003.006 and 1003.007 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 1003.006. STUDY ON REGISTRATION OF COMMERCIAL MOTOR | ||
VEHICLES. (a) The department shall: | ||
(1) conduct a study that: | ||
(A) identifies and assesses alternative | ||
technologies for registering commercial motor vehicles to replace | ||
license plates, permits, and other existing documentation and | ||
registration methods currently in use in this state; and | ||
(B) evaluates the safety and suitability for use | ||
on roadways of the technologies identified under Paragraph (A); and | ||
(2) submit a report on the results of the study to the | ||
governor, lieutenant governor, speaker of the house of | ||
representatives, and presiding officer of each legislative | ||
standing committee with primary jurisdiction over transportation | ||
issues not later than December 1, 2021. | ||
(b) The department may collaborate with another state | ||
agency or a research division of an institution of higher education | ||
in this state to conduct the study. | ||
(c) This section expires January 1, 2023. | ||
Sec. 1003.007. PILOT PROGRAM FOR REGISTRATION OF COMMERCIAL | ||
VEHICLES. (a) The department, in consultation with a state agency | ||
or research division of an institution of higher education in this | ||
state, may establish a limited pilot program that identifies, | ||
implements, and assesses alternative technologies for registering | ||
commercial motor vehicles to replace license plates, permits, and | ||
other existing documentation and registration methods currently in | ||
use in this state if the department determines that the program can | ||
be implemented at no cost to the state and that the results of the | ||
study conducted under Section 1003.006 indicate that the program is | ||
feasible. | ||
(b) The program must: | ||
(1) evaluate the safety and suitability for use on | ||
roadways of the alternative technologies identified under | ||
Subsection (a); and | ||
(2) be funded through contributions by participants | ||
who voluntarily opt into the program. | ||
(c) Not later than December 1, 2022, the department shall | ||
submit a report on the results of the program to the governor, | ||
lieutenant governor, speaker of the house of representatives, and | ||
presiding officer of each legislative standing committee with | ||
primary jurisdiction over transportation issues. | ||
(d) This section expires January 1, 2023. | ||
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, 2017. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 1959 was passed by the House on May 9, | ||
2017, by the following vote: Yeas 143, Nays 2, 2 present, not | ||
voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B. | ||
No. 1959 on May 26, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 137, Nays 7, | ||
2 present, not voting. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 1959 was passed by the Senate, with | ||
amendments, on May 24, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays | ||
0. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: __________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |