Bill Text: TX SB1386 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub

Texas Senate Bill 1386 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relating to the use of habitual toll violator remedies by certain toll project entities.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2017-05-16 - Committee report sent to Calendars [SB1386 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-SB1386-Comm_Sub.html



	By: Taylor of Collin, et al.	S.B. No. 1386

	(Laubenberg)


	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to the use of habitual toll violator remedies by certain
	toll project entities.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 372.101, Transportation Code, is amended
	to read as follows:
	Sec. 372.101. APPLICABILITY. Except as provided by Section
	372.115(b), this [~~This~~] subchapter does not apply to a county
	acting under Chapter 284.
	SECTION 2. Section 372.115, Transportation Code, is amended
	to read as follows:
	Sec. 372.115. USE OF REMEDIES OPTIONAL; EXCEPTION FOR
	CERTAIN COUNTY TOLL AUTHORITIES. (a) A toll project entity's use
	of remedies under this subchapter is cumulative of other remedies
	and, except as provided by Subsection (b), is optional. Nothing[,
	~~and nothing~~] in this subchapter prohibits a toll project entity
	from exercising any other enforcement remedies available under this
	chapter or other law.
	(b) A county acting under Chapter 284 that participates in a
	regional tollway authority under Chapter 366 shall pursue the
	habitual violator remedies under this subchapter.
	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, 2017.