89R4724 GP-D
 
  By: Moody H.B. No. 1557
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to waiver programs for certain veterans provided by toll
  project entities.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Sections 372.053(a), (a-1), and (a-2),
  Transportation Code, are amended to read as follows:
         (a)  A toll project entity shall [may] establish a discount
  program for electronic toll collection customers.
         (a-1)  A program established under Subsection (a) must
  include free [or discounted] use of the entity's toll project by an
  electronic toll collection customer whose account relates to a
  vehicle registered under Section 504.202 or 504.315(f) or (g).
         (a-2)  A toll project entity may limit to no more than two the
  number of transponders issued to a participant in the entity's
  waiver program for which free [or discounted] use of the entity's
  toll project is provided under Subsection (a-1). A toll project
  entity that adopts a limit under this subsection shall allow a
  participant to be issued one extra transponder on a demonstration
  of hardship by the participant, as determined by the entity.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.