82R6079 ACP-F
By: Guillen H.B. No. 2137
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the issuance of exempt license plates to certain
open-enrollment charter school vehicles.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. The heading to Section 502.202, Transportation
Code, is amended to read as follows:
Sec. 502.202. GOVERNMENT-OWNED VEHICLES; PUBLIC SCHOOL
BUSES; OPEN-ENROLLMENT CHARTER SCHOOL VEHICLES; FIRE-FIGHTING
VEHICLES; COUNTY MARINE LAW ENFORCEMENT VEHICLES.
SECTION 2. Section 502.202, Transportation Code, is amended
by amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (c) to read as
follows:
(a) The owner of a motor vehicle, trailer, or semitrailer
may annually apply for registration under Section 502.201 and is
exempt from the payment of a registration fee under this chapter if
the vehicle is:
(1) owned by and used exclusively in the service of:
(A) the United States;
(B) this state; or
(C) a county, municipality, [or] school
district, or open-enrollment charter school in this state;
(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, or to an
open-enrollment charter school;
(3) designed and used exclusively for fire fighting;
(4) owned by a volunteer fire department and used
exclusively in the conduct of department business; or
(5) privately owned and used by a volunteer
exclusively in county marine law enforcement activities, including
rescue operations, under the direction of the sheriff's department.
(c) In this section, "open-enrollment charter school" means
a school that has been granted a charter under Subchapter D or E,
Chapter 12, Education Code.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.