Bill Text: TX SB798 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to authorizing an optional county fee on vehicle registration in certain counties to be used for transportation projects.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2025-02-07 - Referred to Transportation [SB798 Detail]

Download: Texas-2025-SB798-Introduced.html

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89R4362 CXP-F
By: Eckhardt S.B. No. 798

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to authorizing an optional county fee on vehicle
registration in certain counties to be used for transportation
projects.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Sections 502.402(a) and (b-1), Transportation
Code, are amended to read as follows:
(a) This section applies only to:
(1) a county that:
(A) borders the United Mexican States; and
(B) has a population of more than 250,000;
(2) a county that has a population of more than 1.5
million that is coterminous with a regional mobility authority;
[and]
(3) a county that has a population of more than 190,000
and not more than 1.5 million that is coterminous with a regional
mobility authority; and
(4) a county that is part of a regional mobility
authority created under Chapter 370 with at least two counties.
(b-1) The commissioners court of a county described by
Subsection (a)(1) or (3) [(a)] with a population of less than
700,000 may increase the additional fee to an amount that does not
exceed $20 if approved by a majority of the qualified voters of the
county voting on the issue at a referendum election, which the
commissioners court may order and hold for that purpose.
SECTION 2. 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, 2025.