H.B. No. 1590
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.