Bill Text: TX HB3821 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the implementation of a veteran discount program for the use of certain toll projects.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2025-04-28 - Left pending in subcommittee [HB3821 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB3821-Introduced.html
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| By: Gerdes | H.B. No. 3821 | |
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| relating to the implementation of a veteran discount program for | ||
| the use of certain toll projects. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 228, Transportation Code, | ||
| is amended by adding Section 228.060 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 228.060. VETERAN DISCOUNT PROGRAM ON CERTAIN TOLL | ||
| PROJECTS. (a) The department shall establish and implement a | ||
| veteran discount program under Section 372.053 for electronic toll | ||
| collection customers using State Highway 130. | ||
| (b) The department shall use revenue received from tolls | ||
| collected under the comprehensive development agreement entered | ||
| into on or before March 22, 2007, for State Highway 130 from U.S. | ||
| Highway 183 to Interstate Highway 10 (Segments 5 and 6) to fund the | ||
| free or discounted use of State Highway 130 provided by the program | ||
| described by Subsection (a). | ||
| (c) In allocating revenue under Subsection (b), the | ||
| department: | ||
| (1) shall prioritize funding free or discounted toll | ||
| project usage for electronic toll collection customers using the | ||
| portion of State Highway 130 described by Subsection (b); and | ||
| (2) may, after allocating revenue for the purpose | ||
| described by Subdivision (1), use any remaining revenue to fund | ||
| free or discounted toll project usages for electronic toll | ||
| collection customers using portions of State Highway 130 not | ||
| described by Subdivision (1). | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. | ||
