By:  Janek                                                        S.B. No. 203
	(In the Senate - Filed January 15, 2003; February 3, 2003, 
read first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental 
Relations; May 7, 2003, reported adversely, with favorable 
Committee Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 4, Nays 0; 
May 7, 2003, sent to printer.)


COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 203                                    By:  Gallegos


A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT


relating to fees charged for certain transportation services to and 
from cruise ship terminals.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  The heading to Subtitle A, Title 14, Local 
Government Code, is amended to read as follows:

SUBTITLE A.  MUNICIPAL PARKING AND TRANSPORTATION

PROVISIONS
	SECTION 2.  Subtitle A, Title 14, Local Government Code, is 
amended by adding Chapter 440 to read as follows:

CHAPTER 440.  MISCELLANEOUS PARKING AND TRANSPORTATION

PROVISIONS AFFECTING MUNICIPALITIES
	Sec. 440.001.  CERTAIN ACCESS FEES LIMITED.  (a)  A 
municipality or port authority located in a county that contains a 
port with a cruise ship terminal and that is adjacent to a county 
with a population of 3.3 million or more may impose a reasonable and 
nondiscriminatory access fee on shuttle, limousine, or taxi service 
to or from the cruise ship terminal.  The amount of an access fee 
imposed under this section may not be based on the ownership of the 
shuttle, limousine, or taxi service.  The total fee imposed by a 
municipality or port authority under this section against any one 
person may not exceed $70,000 per calendar year.
	(b)  This section does not affect the authority of a 
municipality to license and regulate the use of motor vehicles for 
compensation within the municipality's municipal limits or the 
authority of a port authority to enact reasonable rules and 
regulations governing vehicular and pedestrian access to or use of 
port property.
	SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2003.                           



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