85S10489 JXC-D
By: Pickett H.B. No. 161
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the authority of a county to end a low-income vehicle
repair assistance, retrofit, and accelerated vehicle retirement
program in the county.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 382.209, Health and Safety Code, is
amended by adding Subsections (k), (l), (m), and (n) to read as
follows:
(k) The commissioners court of a participating county may
adopt a resolution to end the low-income vehicle repair assistance,
retrofit, and accelerated vehicle retirement program in the county.
The commissioners court shall submit the resolution to the
commission and to the county tax assessor-collector. The
resolution must include a date after which a fee may not be imposed
under Section 382.202 or 382.302 for the purposes of the county's
low-income vehicle repair assistance, retrofit, and accelerated
vehicle retirement program on vehicles being inspected or
registered in the county. The date must be:
(1) the first day of a month; and
(2) at least 30 days after the date the resolution is
submitted to the commission.
(l) On receipt of a resolution under Subsection (k), the
commission shall notify, in writing, the Texas Department of Motor
Vehicles, the Department of Public Safety, and the Legislative
Budget Board that a fee may not be imposed under Section 382.202 or
382.302 for the purposes of the county's low-income vehicle repair
assistance, retrofit, and accelerated vehicle retirement program
on vehicles being inspected or registered in the county after the
date established under Subsection (k).
(m) In the first fiscal biennium that begins after a county
adopts a resolution under Subsection (k), the legislature shall
appropriate to the commission, for the sole purpose of returning
the money to the county, any remaining money collected in the county
from a fee authorized under Section 382.202 or 382.302 for the
purposes of the county's low-income vehicle repair assistance,
retrofit, and accelerated vehicle retirement program. This
subsection does not apply to money collected from a fee authorized
under Section 382.202 or 382.302 that the commission would
otherwise have used for administrative purposes. The commission
shall distribute to the county money appropriated to the commission
for the county under this subsection.
(n) A county that receives a distribution of money under
Subsection (m) may use the money for remaining expenses of the
county's low-income vehicle repair assistance, retrofit, and
accelerated vehicle retirement program or for any other purpose.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect December 1, 2017.