Bill Text: TX HB584 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a program to facilitate, through the issuance and use of electronic toll collection transponders, free or discounted toll project use available to certain military personnel.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-05-06 - Failed to receive affirmative vote in comm. [HB584 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB584-Introduced.html
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By: White | H.B. No. 584 |
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relating to a program to facilitate, through the issuance and use of | ||
electronic toll collection transponders, free or discounted toll | ||
project use available to certain military personnel. | ||
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. MILITARY [ |
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SECTION 2. Section 372.053, Transportation Code, is amended | ||
by adding Subsection (c) to read as follows: | ||
(c) The department, in cooperation with the United States | ||
armed forces, shall create a program to facilitate, through the | ||
issuance and use of electronic toll collection transponders, any | ||
free or discounted toll project use available to active duty | ||
members of: | ||
(1) the National Guard of this state or another state; | ||
or | ||
(2) a reserve component of the United States armed | ||
forces. | ||
SECTION 3. 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, 2019. |