85R3283 JTS-D
By: White H.B. No. 416
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to a program to facilitate, through the issuance and use of
electronic toll collection transponders, free or discounted toll
project use available to certain military personnel.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. The heading to Section 372.053, Transportation
Code, is amended to read as follows:
Sec. 372.053. MILITARY [VETERAN] DISCOUNT PROGRAMS
[PROGRAM].
SECTION 2. Section 372.053, Transportation Code, is amended
by adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
(c) The department, in cooperation with the United States
armed forces, shall create a program to facilitate, through the
issuance and use of electronic toll collection transponders, any
free or discounted toll project use available to active duty
members of:
(1) the National Guard of this state or another state;
or
(2) a reserve component of the United States armed
forces.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2017.