| |
| |
|
|
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
|
|
|
AN ACT
|
|
|
relating to a highway toll exemption for certain vehicles that are |
|
|
owned by or operated on behalf of public schools or open-enrollment |
|
|
charter schools. |
|
|
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
|
|
SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 372, Transportation Code, |
|
|
is amended by adding Section 372.059 to read as follows: |
|
|
Sec. 372.059. CERTAIN SCHOOL VEHICLES. (a) A toll project |
|
|
entity may not require the payment of a toll for use of a toll |
|
|
project by a vehicle that is exempt from registration fees under |
|
|
Section 502.453 and is: |
|
|
(1) owned by and used exclusively in the service of: |
|
|
(A) a school district in this state; or |
|
|
(B) an open-enrollment charter school; or |
|
|
(2) owned by a commercial transportation company and |
|
|
used exclusively to provide public school transportation services |
|
|
to a school district under Section 34.008, Education Code. |
|
|
(b) This section does not apply to the use of a toll project |
|
|
for which the terms of financial assistance provided for the |
|
|
project or bonds issued for the project prohibit the toll project |
|
|
entity that operates the project from providing the toll exemption |
|
|
required by this section. |
|
|
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. |