By: Alexander H.B. No. 1590
73R6367 T
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.
1-18 <Reciprocity. Motor carriers of property for hire residing or
1-19 domiciled outside of the State of Texas, who have authority from
1-20 the Interstate Commerce Commission to transport property for hire
1-21 to, from or between points in Texas, and whose operations in this
1-22 State are limited to the transportation of property for hire in
1-23 interstate or foreign commerce only under such authority, shall not
1-24 be required to pay the special fees provided for in Sections 7,
2-1 17(a), 18 and Section 5a(g) of this Act; provided, however, this
2-2 exemption from the payment of said fees shall not apply unless the
2-3 States in which such foreign motor carriers reside or are domiciled
2-4 shall likewise extend to motor carriers residing or domiciled in
2-5 Texas exemption from payment of the same or similar fees or
2-6 expenses in their respective States; such exemptions from the
2-7 payment of such fees in Texas shall be effective when the
2-8 governmental agency or the authorized representative thereof of
2-9 such foreign States having jurisdiction over the operations of
2-10 motor carriers for hire shall certify in writing to the Railroad
2-11 Commission of Texas that the exemption from the payment of such
2-12 fees and expenses by such Texas carriers has been granted, and is
2-13 in full&1 force and effect. Provided further, however, that this
2-14 exemption shall not apply to the payment of filing fees for
2-15 applications for certificates or permits to operate in this State.>
2-16 <Nonresident motor carriers covered by this section are not
2-17 required to display upon a vehicle external identification other
2-18 than that required by the Interstate Commerce Commission.>
2-19 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
2-20 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-21 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-22 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-23 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-24 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.