By: Gallego (Senate Sponsor - Uresti) H.B. No. 2057
         (In the Senate - Received from the House May 13, 2009;
  May 14, 2009, read first time and referred to Committee on
  Transportation and Homeland Security; May 23, 2009, reported
  favorably, as amended, by the following vote:  Yeas 9, Nays 0;
  May 23, 2009, sent to printer.)
 
  COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1 By:  Shapleigh
 
 
         Amend H.B. No. 2057 (house engrossment) in SECTION 1 of the
  bill, in amended Section 502.1725(a)(1), Transportation Code (page
  1, lines 30 and 31), by striking proposed Paragraph (C) and
  substituting the following:
                     (C)  that either:
                           (i)  has no [(3)  in which the largest]
  municipality with [has] a population of [less than] 300,000 or
  more; or
                           (ii)  borders another state of the United
  States; and
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to an optional county fee on registration of a vehicle in
  certain counties.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Sections 502.1725(a), (f), and (g),
  Transportation Code, are amended to read as follows:
         (a)  This section applies only to:
               (1)  a county:
                     (A)[(1)]  that borders the United Mexican States;
                     (B)[(2)]  that has a population of more than
  300,000; and
                     (C)[(3)]  in which the largest municipality has a
  population of less than 300,000; and
               (2)  a county that has a population of less than 50,000
  that:
                     (A)  borders the United Mexican States; and
                     (B)  contains at least one federal military base.
         (f)  The county assessor-collector of a county imposing a fee
  under this section shall collect the additional fee for a vehicle
  when other fees imposed under this chapter are collected.  If the
  county is included in a regional mobility authority, the [The]
  county shall send the fee revenue to the regional mobility
  authority [of the county] to fund long-term transportation projects
  in the county.
         (g)  The department shall collect the additional fee on a
  vehicle that is owned by a resident of a county imposing a fee under
  this section and that, under this chapter, must be registered
  directly with the department.  The department shall send all fees
  collected for a county under this subsection to:
               (1)  the regional mobility authority of the county to
  fund long-term transportation projects in the county if the county
  is included in an authority; or
               (2)  the county treasurer to be credited to the county
  public transportation fund if the county is not included in an
  authority.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2009.
 
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