By Alexander                                          H.B. No. 1590
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to registration of interstate or foreign motor carriers
    1-3  for hire.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 18a, Chapter 314, Acts of the 41st
    1-6  Legislature, Regular Session, 1929 (Article 911b, Vernon's Texas
    1-7  Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
    1-8        Sec. 18a.  Single State Registration.  The Commission shall
    1-9  take those actions necessary to participate to the fullest extent
   1-10  practicable in the single state registration system established by
   1-11  Section 4005 of Title IV of the Intermodal Surface Transportation
   1-12  Efficiency Act of 1991 (49 U.S.C. Sec.  11506).  The Commission may
   1-13  charge and collect from a motor carrier holding a certificate or
   1-14  permit issued under Subtitle IV of Title 49 U.S.C. a fee, not to
   1-15  exceed the maximum fee established under federal law, for the
   1-16  filing of proof of insurance consistent with 49 U.S.C. Sec. 11506.
   1-17  Fees collected under this section shall be deposited in the motor
   1-18  carrier act enforcement fund for use of the Commission until
   1-19  collections equal $1,500,000.  All fees collected in excess of
   1-20  $1,500,000 shall be deposited in the general revenue fund.
   1-21  <Reciprocity.  Motor carriers of property for hire residing or
   1-22  domiciled outside of the State of Texas, who have authority from
   1-23  the Interstate Commerce Commission to transport property for hire
   1-24  to, from or between points in Texas, and whose operations in this
    2-1  State are limited to the transportation of property for hire in
    2-2  interstate or foreign commerce only under such authority, shall not
    2-3  be required to pay the special fees provided for in Sections 7,
    2-4  17(a), 18 and Section 5a(g) of this Act; provided, however, this
    2-5  exemption from the payment of said fees shall not apply unless the
    2-6  States in which such foreign motor carriers reside or are domiciled
    2-7  shall likewise extend to motor carriers residing or domiciled in
    2-8  Texas exemption from the payment of the same or similar fees or
    2-9  expenses in their respective States; such exemptions from the
   2-10  payment of such fees in Texas shall be effective when the
   2-11  governmental agency or the authorized representative thereof of
   2-12  such foreign States having jurisdiction over the operations of
   2-13  motor carriers for hire shall certify in writing to the Railroad
   2-14  Commission of Texas that the exemption from the payment of such
   2-15  fees and expenses by such Texas carriers has been granted, and is
   2-16  in full force and effect.  Provided further, however, that this
   2-17  exemption shall not apply to the payment of filing fees for
   2-18  applications for certificates or permits to operate in this State.>
   2-19        <Nonresident motor carriers covered by this section are not
   2-20  required to display upon a vehicle external identification other
   2-21  than that required by the Interstate Commerce Commission.>
   2-22        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   2-23        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-24  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-25  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-26  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-27  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.