Bill Text: TX HB3704 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the development of a statewide motor vehicle registration program to prevent transnational motor vehicle theft, including authorizing proposed fees to support the program.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-04-29 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB3704 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB3704-Comm_Sub.html
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| By: Canales | H.B. No. 3704 | ||
| Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3704: | |||
| By: Phillips | C.S.H.B. No. 3704 | ||
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| relating to the development of a statewide motor vehicle | ||
| registration program to prevent transnational motor vehicle theft, | ||
| including authorizing proposed fees to support the program. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 411, Government Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 411.0094 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 411.0094. MOTOR VEHICLE REGISTRATION PROGRAM. (a) | ||
| The department shall develop a statewide motor vehicle registration | ||
| program to help prevent transnational motor vehicle theft. The | ||
| department may not implement the program unless the legislature | ||
| subsequently provides by general law for the implementation of the | ||
| program. | ||
| (b) Under the program, an owner of a motor vehicle may | ||
| register the motor vehicle with the department to authorize a peace | ||
| officer to stop the registered vehicle before the vehicle crosses | ||
| the international border of this state. | ||
| (c) The department shall develop a form to register a motor | ||
| vehicle under the program. The form must advise the owner of the | ||
| motor vehicle regarding the provisions of Subsection (f). A motor | ||
| vehicle may not be registered under the program unless the owner | ||
| consents to the provisions of Subsection (f). | ||
| (d) The program must provide a method for an owner to | ||
| withdraw a motor vehicle from the program. The program may not | ||
| require an owner of a motor vehicle to participate in the program. | ||
| (e) After implementation of the program, the department | ||
| shall maintain a database of all motor vehicles registered under | ||
| the program. | ||
| (f) A peace officer who observes a motor vehicle that is | ||
| registered under the program and is crossing the international | ||
| border of this state may stop the motor vehicle to determine whether | ||
| the motor vehicle is being operated by the owner or with the owner's | ||
| permission. | ||
| (g) The department shall propose rules to administer the | ||
| program and may propose a registration fee in an amount sufficient | ||
| to recover the cost of administering the program. | ||
| 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, 2015. | ||
