By: Watson S.B. No. 1467

(In the Senate - Filed March 12, 2015; March 19, 2015, read first time and referred to Committee on Transportation; April 13, 2015, reported adversely, with favorable Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; April 13, 2015, sent to printer.) Click here to see the committee vote

COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1467 By: Hancock

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to authorizing the collection of a service charge on certain electronic toll collection customer account payments.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Section 228.052, Transportation Code, is amended to read as follows:

Sec. 228.052. OPERATION OF TOLL PROJECT OR SYSTEM. (a) The department may enter into an agreement with one or more persons to provide, on terms approved by the department, personnel, equipment, systems, facilities, and services necessary to operate a toll project or system, including the operation of toll plazas and lanes and customer service centers and the collection of tolls.

(b) A person that enters into an agreement with the department to provide services for a customer to pay an amount on an electronic toll collection customer account at a location other than a department office may collect from the customer a service charge in addition to the amount paid on the account.

(c) The commission by rule shall set the maximum amount a person may collect as a service charge under Subsection (b), which may not exceed $3 for a payment transaction.

SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.

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