Bill Text: TX HB108 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to the issuance of specialty license plates for certain classroom teachers and retired classroom teachers; imposing fees.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Passed) 2023-06-12 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB108 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB108-Comm_Sub.html
  88R3577 DIO-F
 
  By: Cortez, et al. H.B. No. 108
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to privileged parking and the issuance of specialty
  license plates for certain classroom teachers and retired classroom
  teachers; imposing a fee.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter F, Chapter 504, Transportation Code,
  is amended by adding Sections 504.517 and 504.518 to read as
  follows:
         Sec. 504.517.  CLASSROOM TEACHERS. (a) In this section,
  "classroom teacher" has the meaning assigned by Section 5.001,
  Education Code.
         (b)  The department shall issue specialty license plates for
  classroom teachers with at least 15 years of service teaching
  public school students. The license plates must include the words
  "Texas Teacher" and depict a Texas public education logo. The
  department shall design the license plates in consultation with the
  Texas Education Agency.
         (c)  The fee for issuance of the license plates is $10.
         Sec. 504.518.  RETIRED CLASSROOM TEACHERS. (a) In this
  section, "retired classroom teacher" means a person who:
               (1)  was formerly employed as a classroom teacher, as
  that term is defined by Section 5.001, Education Code; and
               (2)  is a retiree of the Teacher Retirement System of
  Texas.
         (b)  The department shall issue specialty license plates for
  retired classroom teachers with at least 20 years of service
  teaching public school students. The license plates must include
  the words "Retired Texas Teacher" and depict a Texas public
  education logo. The department shall design the license plates in
  consultation with the Texas Education Agency.
         (c)  The fee for issuance of the license plates is $5.
         SECTION 2.  The heading to Section 681.008, Transportation
  Code, is amended to read as follows:
         Sec. 681.008.  PARKING PRIVILEGES: CERTAIN VETERANS, [AND]
  MILITARY AWARD RECIPIENTS, CLASSROOM TEACHERS, AND RETIRED
  CLASSROOM TEACHERS.
         SECTION 3.  Section 681.008(b), Transportation Code, is
  amended to read as follows:
         (b)  A vehicle on which license plates described by
  Subsection (a)(2) or issued under Section 504.202, 504.308,
  504.310, 504.315, 504.316, [or] 504.319, 504.517, or 504.518 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), 504.308, 504.310, 504.315, 504.316, [or]
  504.319, 504.517, or 504.518;
               (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, 2023.
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