Bill Text: TX HB894 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced

Texas House Bill 894 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to waiver programs for veterans provided by toll project entities.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-04 - Left pending in committee [HB894 Detail]

Download: Texas-2015-HB894-Introduced.html

	84R3616 JAM-D

	By: Miller of Fort Bend	H.B. No. 894



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to waiver programs for veterans provided by toll project
	entities.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 372.053, Transportation Code, is amended
	to read as follows:
	Sec. 372.053. VETERAN WAIVER [~~DISCOUNT~~] PROGRAM. (a) A
	toll project entity shall [~~may~~] establish a waiver [~~discount~~]
	program for electronic toll collection customers that includes [.
	~~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 or
	Subchapter D, Chapter 504 [~~504.315(f) or (g)~~].
	(b) The legislature may appropriate funds from the general
	revenue fund to a toll project entity to defray the cost of
	providing free [~~or discounted~~] use of the entity's toll project
	under this section.
	(c) Notwithstanding Sections 228.057(e), 366.179(d),
	370.178(d), and 372.051(a), a toll project entity with an
	electronic toll collection customer who participates in the
	entity's waiver program shall provide to all other toll project
	entities the information necessary for the customer to participate
	in the entities' waiver programs.
	SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.