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