By Thompson                                           H.B. No. 2091
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                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to incentives for mass transit authority motor vehicles
    1-3  propelled by liquefied gas.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Subchapter D, Chapter 153, Tax Code, is amended
    1-6  by adding Section 153.3022 to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 153.3022.  TEMPORARY EXEMPTION.  (a)  For five years
    1-8  after the effective date of this Act, the tax imposed by this
    1-9  subchapter does not apply to a mass transit authority using a
   1-10  liquefied gas-propelled motor vehicle, including a motor vehicle
   1-11  equipped to use liquefied gas interchangeably with another motor
   1-12  fuel, so long as the mass transit authority files annually a timely
   1-13  permit application in accordance with this subchapter and pays a
   1-14  $10 administrative fee per vehicle.
   1-15        (b)  As used in this section, "mass transit authority" means
   1-16  a transportation or transit authority or a city transit department
   1-17  or any other transportation entity established under Chapter 141,
   1-18  Acts of the 63rd Legislature, Regular Session, 1973 (Article 1118x,
   1-19  Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), Chapter 683, Acts of the 66th
   1-20  Legislature, Regular Session, 1979 (Article 1118y, Vernon's Texas
   1-21  Civil Statutes), Article 1118z, Revised Statutes, Chapter 791 of
   1-22  the Government Code, or any other entity eligible for any funding
   1-23  under Article 6663c, Revised Statutes.
   1-24        SECTION 2.  The change in the law made by this article does
    2-1  not affect taxes imposed before the effective date of this article,
    2-2  and the law in effect before the effective date of this article is
    2-3  continued in effect for purposes of the liability for and
    2-4  collection of those taxes.
    2-5        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
    2-6        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-7  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-8  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-9  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-10  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.