Bill Text: TX SB916 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to vehicle monitoring technology installed on certain motor vehicles.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-03 - Referred to Business & Commerce [SB916 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB916-Introduced.html
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| By: Hall | S.B. No. 916 | |
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| relating to vehicle monitoring technology installed on certain | ||
| motor vehicles. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter N, Chapter 2301, Occupations Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 2301.655 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 2301.655. VEHICLE MONITORING TECHNOLOGY. (a) In this | ||
| section: | ||
| (1) "Light truck" and "passenger car" have the | ||
| meanings assigned by Section 541.201, Transportation Code. | ||
| (2) "Vehicle monitoring technology" means any | ||
| application or device, including software, firmware, or hardware, | ||
| that, when activated or engaged, monitors the operator or operation | ||
| of a motor vehicle on which it is installed. | ||
| (b) The board may take an action described by Section | ||
| 2301.651 against a license holder under this chapter who: | ||
| (1) manufactures, distributes, or possesses with | ||
| intent to distribute vehicle monitoring technology that is: | ||
| (A) installed or intended to be installed on a | ||
| light truck or passenger car; and | ||
| (B) not capable of being deactivated or | ||
| disengaged by the vehicle's operator; | ||
| (2) installs on a light truck or passenger car vehicle | ||
| monitoring technology that is not capable of being deactivated or | ||
| disengaged by the vehicle's operator; or | ||
| (3) sells a light truck or passenger car on which has | ||
| been installed vehicle monitoring technology that is not capable of | ||
| being deactivated or disengaged by the vehicle's operator. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 2301.655, Occupations Code, as added by | ||
| this Act, applies only to disciplinary action under Section | ||
| 2301.651, Occupations Code, against a license holder for conduct | ||
| that occurs on or after the effective date of this Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
