| |
| |
|
|
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
|
|
|
AN ACT
|
|
|
relating to waiver programs for certain veterans provided by toll |
|
|
project entities. |
|
|
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
|
|
SECTION 1. Sections 372.053(a), (a-1), and (a-2), |
|
|
Transportation Code, are amended to read as follows: |
|
|
(a) A toll project entity shall [may] establish a discount |
|
|
program for electronic toll collection customers. |
|
|
(a-1) A program established under Subsection (a): |
|
|
(1) must include free [or discounted] use of the |
|
|
entity's toll project by an electronic toll collection customer |
|
|
whose account relates to a vehicle registered under Section |
|
|
[504.202 or] 504.315(f) or (g); and |
|
|
(2) may include free or discounted use of the entity's |
|
|
toll project by other electronic toll collection customers, |
|
|
including customers whose account relates to a vehicle registered |
|
|
under Section 504.202. |
|
|
(a-2) A toll project entity may limit to no more than two the |
|
|
number of transponders issued to a participant in the entity's |
|
|
waiver program for which free [or discounted] use of the entity's |
|
|
toll project is provided under Subsection (a-1). A toll project |
|
|
entity that adopts a limit under this subsection shall allow a |
|
|
participant to be issued one extra transponder on a demonstration |
|
|
of hardship by the participant, as determined by the entity. |
|
|
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. |