83R3671 JRR-F
	By: Guillen	H.B. No. 352

	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to the issuance of exempt license plates to certain
	open-enrollment charter school vehicles.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1.  The heading to Section 502.453, Transportation
	Code, is amended to read as follows:
	Sec. 502.453.  GOVERNMENT-OWNED VEHICLES; PUBLIC SCHOOL
	BUSES; OPEN-ENROLLMENT CHARTER SCHOOL VEHICLES; FIRE-FIGHTING
	VEHICLES; COUNTY MARINE LAW ENFORCEMENT VEHICLES.
	SECTION 2.  Section 502.453, Transportation Code, is amended
	by amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (c) to read as
	follows:
	(a)  The owner of a motor vehicle, trailer, or semitrailer
	may annually apply for registration under Section 502.451 and is
	exempt from the payment of a registration fee under this chapter if
	the vehicle is:
	(1)  owned by and used exclusively in the service of:
	(A)  the United States;
	(B)  this state; or
	(C)  a county, municipality, [or] school
	district, or open-enrollment charter school in this state;
	(2)  owned by a commercial transportation company and
	used exclusively to provide public school transportation services
	to a school district under Section 34.008, Education Code, or to an
	open-enrollment charter school;
	(3)  designed and used exclusively for fire fighting;
	(4)  owned by a volunteer fire department and used
	exclusively in the conduct of department business;
	(5)  privately owned and used by a volunteer
	exclusively in county marine law enforcement activities, including
	rescue operations, under the direction of the sheriff's department;
	or
	(6)  used by law enforcement under an alias for covert
	criminal investigations.
	(c)  In this section, "open-enrollment charter school" means
	a school that has been granted a charter under Subchapter D or E,
	Chapter 12, Education Code.
	SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.