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BILL ANALYSIS |
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By: Gallego |
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE
Certain counties are allowed to impose a small fee, less than or equal to $10, to register a vehicle. The revenue that is collected from that registration fee goes to the regional mobility authority that the county is included in. This bill expands the number of counties eligible to impose vehicle registration fees by including counties that have a population of less than 50,000 people, border Mexico and contain at least one federal military base. Also, if an eligible county is not included within a regional mobility authority then the revenue from vehicle registration fees will go towards the county public transportation fund. Either way, the revenue from the vehicle registration fees will support road development and infrastructure.
RULEMAKING AUTHORITY
It is the opinion of the committee that this bill does not expressly delegate any additional rule-making authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution.
ANALYSIS
In Section 1 of this bill, Sections 502.1725(a), (f) and (g) of the Transportation Code are amended to add separate qualifications that make additional counties eligible to impose vehicle registration fees. The separate qualifications entail counties to have all of the following three components: they have populations of less than 50,000 people, they border Mexico and they contain at least one federal military base.
This bill also amends the language in Sections (f) and (g) to say that the revenue collected from vehicle registration must go to the county's regional mobility authority. If the county isn't included in a regional mobility authority then the revenue goes toward the county public transportation fund.
Section 2 of this bill says that the bill takes effect September 1, 2009.
EFFECTIVE DATE
This bill takes effect September 1, 2009.