By Lewis of Orange H.B. No. 858
76R1757 WP-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to exempting political subdivisions of this state from the
1-3 payment of a fee for registration of vehicles.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 502.202(a), Transportation Code, is
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 (a) The owner of a motor vehicle, trailer, or semitrailer
1-8 may annually apply for registration under Section 502.201 and is
1-9 exempt from the payment of a registration fee under this chapter if
1-10 the vehicle is:
1-11 (1) owned by and used exclusively in the service of:
1-12 (A) the United States;
1-13 (B) this state; or
1-14 (C) a political subdivision of this state,
1-15 including a county, municipality, [or] school district, or special
1-16 purpose district or authority [in this state];
1-17 (2) owned by a commercial transportation company and
1-18 used exclusively to provide public school transportation services
1-19 to a school district under Section 34.008 [21.181], Education Code;
1-20 (3) designed and used exclusively for fire fighting;
1-21 (4) owned by a volunteer fire department and used
1-22 exclusively in the conduct of department business; or
1-23 (5) privately owned and used by a volunteer
1-24 exclusively in county marine law enforcement activities, including
2-1 rescue operations, under the direction of the sheriff's department.
2-2 SECTION 2. This Act only affects registration occurring
2-3 under Section 502.202, Transportation Code, that takes place on or
2-4 after the effective date of this Act. Registration taking place
2-5 before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in
2-6 effect when the registration occurred and that law is continued in
2-7 effect for that purpose.
2-8 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-9 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-10 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-11 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-12 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-13 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-14 passage, and it is so enacted.