Bill Text: TX SB556 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced

Texas Senate Bill 556 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to a highway maintenance fee imposed in connection with the operation of overweight vehicles or vehicle combinations.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-02-17 - Referred to Transportation & Homeland Sec. [SB556 Detail]

Download: Texas-2011-SB556-Introduced.html



	By: Davis	S.B. No. 556


	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to a highway maintenance fee imposed in connection with
	the operation of overweight vehicles or vehicle combinations.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 623, Transportation Code,
	is amended by adding Section 623.003 to read as follow:
	Sec. 623.003. HIGHWAY MAINTENANCE FEE FOR OPERATION OF
	OVERWEIGHT VEHICLE UNDER PERMIT. (a) An applicant for a permit
	issued by the department under this chapter must pay, in addition to
	any other fee required by this chapter, a highway maintenance fee if
	the vehicle or vehicle combination exceeds the weights authorized
	under Subchapter B, Chapter 621.
	(b) The Texas Transportation Commission shall adopt rules
	to implement this section and establish a schedule of rates for the
	highway maintenance fee, based on miles traveled, that provides for
	graduated rates according to:
	(1) the weight of the vehicle or vehicle combination;
	and
	(2) the amount of damage done by the vehicle or vehicle
	combination to roads and bridges.
	(c) The department shall send each fee collected under
	Subsection (a) to the comptroller for deposit to the credit of the
	state highway fund.
	SECTION 2. Section 623.077, Transportation Code, is
	repealed.
	SECTION 3. (a) The Texas Transportation Commission shall
	adopt rules implementing Section 623.003, Transportation Code, as
	added by this Act, not later than January 1, 2012.
	(b) Section 623.003(a), Transportation Code, as added by
	this Act, applies only to an application for a permit submitted
	under Chapter 623, Transportation Code, to the Texas Department of
	Transportation on or after January 1, 2012. An application for a
	permit submitted before January 1, 2012, is governed by the law in
	effect on the date the application was submitted, and that former
	law is continued in effect for that purpose.
	SECTION 4. (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b) of
	this section, this Act takes effect September 1, 2011.
	(b) Section 2 of this Act takes effect January 1, 2012.