Bill Text: TX HB3589 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to specialty license plates to honor certain Purple Heart recipients.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-05-12 - Returned to Local & Consent Calendars Comm. [HB3589 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB3589-Introduced.html
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By: Wilson | H.B. No. 3589 |
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relating to specialty license plates to honor certain Purple Heart | ||
recipients. | ||
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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VETERANS AND PURPLE HEART RECIPIENTS. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 372.053(a), Transportation Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) A toll project entity may establish a discount program | ||
for electronic toll collection customers. The program 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, [ |
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or 504.5115. | ||
SECTION 3. Subchapter F, Chapter 504, Transportation Code, | ||
is amended by adding Section 504.5115 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 504.5115. CERTAIN PURPLE HEART RECIPIENTS. (a) The | ||
department shall issue specialty license plates for recipients of a | ||
Purple Heart awarded by the Department of Public Safety or another | ||
law enforcement agency in this state. | ||
(b) The fee for issuance of one set of the license plates is | ||
$3. | ||
(c) A person issued specialty license plates under this | ||
section shall be issued one set of the license plates without | ||
payment of the registration fee required under Chapter 502. | ||
SECTION 4. The heading to Section 681.008, Transportation | ||
Code, is amended to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 681.008. PARKING PRIVILEGES: CERTAIN VETERANS AND | ||
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SECTION 5. Section 681.008(b), Transportation Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(b) A vehicle on which license plates described by | ||
Subsection (a)(2) or issued under Section 504.202, 504.308, | ||
504.310, 504.315, 504.316, [ |
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is exempt from the payment of a parking fee collected through a | ||
parking meter charged by a governmental authority other than a | ||
branch of the federal government, when being operated by or for the | ||
transportation of: | ||
(1) the person who registered the vehicle under | ||
Section 504.202(a), 504.308, 504.310, 504.315, 504.316, [ |
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504.319, or 504.5115; | ||
(2) a person described in Section 504.202(b) if the | ||
vehicle is registered under that subsection; or | ||
(3) the owner or operator of a vehicle displaying | ||
license plates described by Subsection (a)(2). | ||
SECTION 6. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |