Bill Text: TX HB2245 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to vehicles eligible for toll discount programs.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-09 - Referred to Transportation [HB2245 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB2245-Introduced.html
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| By: Plesa | H.B. No. 2245 | |
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| relating to vehicles eligible for toll discount programs. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. The heading to Section 372.053, Transportation | ||
| Code, is amended to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 372.053. [ |
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| SECTION 2. Sections 372.053(a) and (a-1), Transportation | ||
| Code, are amended to read as follows: | ||
| (a) A toll project entity: | ||
| (1) may establish a discount program for electronic | ||
| toll collection customers; and | ||
| (2) if the entity establishes a program under | ||
| Subdivision (1), shall establish a process by which the entity | ||
| regularly updates electronic toll collection customer information | ||
| to ensure that a customer described by Subsection (a-1) is able to | ||
| receive free or discounted use of the entity's toll project. | ||
| (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: | ||
| (1) whose account relates to a vehicle registered | ||
| under Section 504.202 or 504.315(f) or (g); or | ||
| (2) who is 65 years of age or older. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
