By: Wentworth S.B. No. 1307
 
  (Pena)
 
   
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to an exemption from the payment of a toll for unmarked
  military vehicles conducting or training for emergency operations.
  BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subsection (d), Section 362.901, Transportation
  Code, is amended to read as follows:
         (d)  In this section:
               (1)  "Military vehicle" includes an unmarked military
  vehicle operated by military personnel conducting an emergency
  preparedness, response, or recovery operation or participating in a
  training exercise for an emergency preparedness, response, or
  recovery operation.  The term does not include a vehicle operated
  for personal use.
               (2)  "Toll[, "toll] project" includes a toll road, toll
  highway, turnpike, toll bridge, ferry, or similar project, users of
  which are required to pay a toll or fare.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
  a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
  provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this
  Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
  Act takes effect September 1, 2011.