1-1 By: Noriega (Senate Sponsor - Lindsay) H.B. No. 2124 1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 9, 2001; 1-3 May 10, 2001, read first time and referred to Committee on State 1-4 Affairs; May 11, 2001, reported favorably by the following vote: 1-5 Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 11, 2001, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to the consolidated registration of certain fleets of 1-9 motor vehicles. 1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-11 SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 502, Transportation Code, 1-12 is amended by adding Section 502.0022 to read as follows: 1-13 Sec. 502.0022. CONSOLIDATED REGISTRATION OF FLEET VEHICLES. 1-14 (a) The department shall develop and implement a system of 1-15 registration so that an owner of a fleet of motor vehicles may 1-16 consolidate the registration of the motor vehicles in the fleet as 1-17 an alternative to the separate registration of each motor vehicle 1-18 in the fleet. 1-19 (b) A system of consolidated registration under this section 1-20 must allow the owner of a fleet of motor vehicles to register: 1-21 (1) an entire fleet of motor vehicles in the county of 1-22 the owner's residence or principal place of business; or 1-23 (2) those vehicles in a fleet of vehicles that are 1-24 operated most regularly in the same county by registering the 1-25 vehicles in that county. 1-26 (c) The department by rule shall define "fleet" for purposes 1-27 of this section. 1-28 (d) The department may adopt rules to administer this 1-29 section. 1-30 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2001. 1-31 * * * * *