By: Sheffield, Miller of Erath, Aycock H.B. No. 559
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 559:
By: Farias C.S.H.B. No. 559
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to Bronze Star Medal specialty license plates.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 372.053(a), Transportation Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(a) A toll project entity may establish a discount program
for electronic toll collection customers. The program 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:
(1) under Section 504.202;
(2) under Section 504.315(a) or (g) [504.315(g)]; or
(3) by a person who has received the Medal of Honor.
SECTION 2. Section 504.315, Transportation Code, is amended
by adding Subsection (a) to read as follows:
(a) The department shall issue specialty license plates for
recipients of the Bronze Star Medal. License plates issued under
this subsection must include the Bronze Star Medal emblem and must
include the words "Bronze Star Medal" at the bottom of each plate.
Section 504.702 does not apply to license plates authorized by this
subsection.
SECTION 3. Section 681.008(b), Transportation Code, as
amended by Chapters 115 (H.B. 2020) and 319 (H.B. 618), Acts of the
81st Legislature, Regular Session, 2009, is reenacted and amended
to read as follows:
(b) A vehicle on which license plates described by
Subsection (a)(2) or issued under Section 504.202, Section
504.315(a), (c) [504.315(c)], (d), (e), (f), or (g), or Section
504.316 are displayed is exempt from the payment of a parking fee
collected through a parking meter charged by a governmental
authority other than a branch of the federal government, when being
operated by or for the transportation of:
(1) the person who registered the vehicle under
Section 504.202(a), Section 504.315(a), (c) [504.315(c)], (d),
(e), (f), or (g), or Section 504.316;
(2) a person described in Section 504.202(b) if the
vehicle is registered under that subsection; or
(3) the owner or operator of a vehicle displaying
license plates described by Subsection (a)(2).
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.