Bill Text: TX HB2137 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the issuance of exempt license plates to certain open-enrollment charter school vehicles.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-04-20 - Left pending in committee [HB2137 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB2137-Introduced.html
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| By: Guillen | H.B. No. 2137 | |
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| relating to the issuance of exempt license plates to certain | ||
| open-enrollment charter school vehicles. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. The heading to Section 502.202, Transportation | ||
| Code, is amended to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 502.202. GOVERNMENT-OWNED VEHICLES; PUBLIC SCHOOL | ||
| BUSES; OPEN-ENROLLMENT CHARTER SCHOOL VEHICLES; FIRE-FIGHTING | ||
| VEHICLES; COUNTY MARINE LAW ENFORCEMENT VEHICLES. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 502.202, Transportation Code, is amended | ||
| by amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (c) to read as | ||
| follows: | ||
| (a) The owner of a motor vehicle, trailer, or semitrailer | ||
| may annually apply for registration under Section 502.201 and is | ||
| exempt from the payment of a registration fee under this chapter if | ||
| the vehicle is: | ||
| (1) owned by and used exclusively in the service of: | ||
| (A) the United States; | ||
| (B) this state; or | ||
| (C) a county, municipality, [ |
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| district, or open-enrollment charter school in this state; | ||
| (2) owned by a commercial transportation company and | ||
| used exclusively to provide public school transportation services | ||
| to a school district under Section 34.008, Education Code, or to an | ||
| open-enrollment charter school; | ||
| (3) designed and used exclusively for fire fighting; | ||
| (4) owned by a volunteer fire department and used | ||
| exclusively in the conduct of department business; or | ||
| (5) privately owned and used by a volunteer | ||
| exclusively in county marine law enforcement activities, including | ||
| rescue operations, under the direction of the sheriff's department. | ||
| (c) In this section, "open-enrollment charter school" means | ||
| a school that has been granted a charter under Subchapter D or E, | ||
| Chapter 12, Education Code. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011. | ||
