By: Campbell S.B. No. 795

(In the Senate - Filed February 24, 2021; March 11, 2021, read first time and referred to Committee on Veteran Affairs & Border Security; April 1, 2021, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; April 1, 2021, sent to printer.) Click here to see the committee vote

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to an exemption from the requirement that the title of a state agency be printed on state-owned motor vehicles.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Section 721.003(a), Transportation Code, is amended to read as follows:

(a) The governing bodies of the following state agencies or divisions by rule may exempt from the requirements of Section 721.002 a motor vehicle that is under the control and custody of the agency or division:

(1) Texas Commission on Fire Protection;

(2) Texas State Board of Pharmacy;

(3) Department of State Health Services and Department of Aging and Disability Services;

(4) Department of Public Safety of the State of Texas;

(5) Texas Department of Criminal Justice;

(6) Board of Pardons and Paroles;

(7) Parks and Wildlife Department;

(8) Railroad Commission of Texas;

(9) Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission;

(10) Texas Department of Banking;

(11) Department of Savings and Mortgage Lending;

(12) Texas Juvenile Justice Department;

(13) Texas Commission on Environmental Quality;

(14) Texas Lottery Commission;

(15) the office of the attorney general;

(16) Texas Department of Insurance; [and]

(17) Texas Military Department; and

(18) an agency that receives an appropriation under an article of the General Appropriations Act that appropriates money to the legislature.

SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.

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