Bill Text: TX HB887 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Engrossed

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Bill Title: Relating to registration of a motor vehicle alleged to have been involved in a violation detected by a photographic traffic signal enforcement system.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 3)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2011-05-16 - Failed to receive affirmative vote in comm. [HB887 Detail]

Download: Texas-2011-HB887-Engrossed.html

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82R4645 JXC-F
By: Geren, et al. H.B. No. 887

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to registration of a motor vehicle alleged to have been
involved in a violation detected by a photographic traffic signal
enforcement system.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 707.017, Transportation Code, as amended
by Chapters 266 (H.B. 2530), 542 (S.B. 1617), and 933 (H.B. 3097),
Acts of the 81st Legislature, Regular Session, 2009, is reenacted
and amended to read as follows:
Sec. 707.017. REGISTRATION AFTER CIVIL PENALTY IMPOSED
[ENFORCEMENT]. [(a)] If the owner of a motor vehicle is delinquent
in the payment of a civil penalty imposed under this chapter,
neither the county assessor-collector nor [or] the Texas Department
of Motor Vehicles may refuse to register a motor vehicle alleged to
have been involved in the violation.
[(b) This section does not apply to the registration of a
motor vehicle under Section 501.0234.]
SECTION 2. To the extent of any conflict, this Act prevails
over another Act of the 82nd Legislature, Regular Session, 2011,
relating to nonsubstantive additions to and corrections in enacted
codes.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.