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| 2 | 2 | | By: Taylor of Galveston S.B. No. 1865 |
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| 5 | 5 | | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED |
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| 6 | 6 | | AN ACT |
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| 7 | 7 | | relating to a study by the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles of |
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| 8 | 8 | | alternative registration technologies for commercial motor |
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| 9 | 9 | | vehicles. |
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| 10 | 10 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 11 | 11 | | SECTION 1. Chapter 1003, Transportation Code, is amended by |
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| 12 | 12 | | adding Section 1003.006 to read as follows: |
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| 13 | 13 | | Sec. 1003.006. STUDY ON REGISTRATION OF COMMERCIAL MOTOR |
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| 14 | 14 | | VEHICLES. (a) The department shall: |
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| 15 | 15 | | (1) conduct a study that: |
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| 16 | 16 | | (A) identifies and assesses alternative |
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| 17 | 17 | | technologies for registering commercial motor vehicles to replace |
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| 18 | 18 | | license plates, permits, and other existing documentation and |
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| 19 | 19 | | registration methods currently in use in this state; and |
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| 20 | 20 | | (B) evaluates the safety and suitability for use |
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| 21 | 21 | | on roadways of the technologies identified under Paragraph (A); and |
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| 22 | 22 | | (2) submit a report on the results of the study to the |
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| 23 | 23 | | governor, the lieutenant governor, the speaker of the house of |
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| 24 | 24 | | representatives, and the chair of the standing committee of each |
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| 25 | 25 | | house of the legislature with primary jurisdiction over |
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| 26 | 26 | | transportation issues not later than December 21, 2018. |
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| 27 | 27 | | (b) The department may collaborate with another state |
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| 28 | 28 | | agency or a research division of an institution of higher education |
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| 29 | 29 | | in this state to conduct the study. |
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| 30 | 30 | | (c) This section expires January 1, 2019. |
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| 31 | 31 | | SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives |
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| 32 | 32 | | a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as |
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| 33 | 33 | | provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this |
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| 34 | 34 | | Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this |
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| 35 | 35 | | Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |
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