Bill Text: TX SB1183 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a highway toll exemption for certain vehicles that are owned by or operated on behalf of public schools or open-enrollment charter schools.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-18 - Referred to Transportation [SB1183 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SB1183-Introduced.html
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| By: Hughes | S.B. No. 1183 | |
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| relating to a highway toll exemption for certain vehicles that are | ||
| owned by or operated on behalf of public schools or open-enrollment | ||
| charter schools. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 372, Transportation Code, | ||
| is amended by adding Section 372.059 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 372.059. CERTAIN SCHOOL VEHICLES. (a) A toll project | ||
| entity may not require the payment of a toll for use of a toll | ||
| project by a vehicle that is exempt from registration fees under | ||
| Section 502.453 and is: | ||
| (1) owned by and used exclusively in the service of: | ||
| (A) a school district in this state; or | ||
| (B) an open-enrollment charter school; or | ||
| (2) owned by a commercial transportation company and | ||
| used exclusively to provide public school transportation services | ||
| to a school district under Section 34.008, Education Code. | ||
| (b) This section does not apply to the use of a toll project | ||
| for which the terms of financial assistance provided for the | ||
| project or bonds issued for the project prohibit the toll project | ||
| entity that operates the project from providing the toll exemption | ||
| required by this section. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | ||
