89R8975 CXP-D
 
  By: Hagenbuch S.B. No. 2705
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to fees for the issuance of certain specialty license
  plates and an exemption from vehicle registration for certain
  trailers, semitrailers, tractors, and implements of husbandry.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter D, Chapter 502, Transportation Code,
  is amended by adding Section 502.147 to read as follows:
         Sec. 502.147.  CERTAIN FARM TRAILERS, FARM SEMITRAILERS,
  FARM TRACTORS, AND IMPLEMENTS OF HUSBANDRY. An owner is not
  required to register a farm trailer or farm semitrailer with a gross
  weight of 4,000 pounds or less or a farm tractor or an implement of
  husbandry if the trailer, semitrailer, tractor, or implement is
  operated only temporarily on the highways.
         SECTION 2.  Section 504.3015(a), Transportation Code, is
  amended to read as follows:
         (a)  A person applying for a set of license plates under this
  subchapter shall pay the registration fee required under Chapter
  502 and the applicable special plate fee required under this
  section, except that one set of license plates shall be issued
  without the payment of the registration fee under:
               (1)  Section 504.308;
               (2)  Section 504.310(b);
               (3)  Section 504.315, other than Subsections (c) and
  (q) of that section; [and]
               (4)  Section 504.316; and
               (5)  Section 504.319.
         SECTION 3.  Section 504.512, Transportation Code, is amended
  by adding Subsection (b) to read as follows:
         (b)  There is no fee for issuance of the license plates.
         SECTION 4.  Section 504.513, Transportation Code, is amended
  by amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (c) to read as
  follows:
         (a)  The department shall issue specialty license plates
  for:
               (1)  volunteer firefighters certified by:
                     (A)  the Texas Commission on Fire Protection; or
                     (B)  the State Firefighters' [Firemen's] and Fire
  Marshals' Association of Texas; and
               (2)  fire protection personnel as that term is defined
  by Section 419.021, Government Code.
         (c)  There is no fee for issuance of the license plates.
         SECTION 5.  Section 504.516, Transportation Code, is amended
  by adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
         (c)  There is no fee for issuance of the license plates.
         SECTION 6.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.