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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