Bill Text: TX HB4243 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a one-year moratorium on the collection of registration and inspection fees for certain motor vehicles.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-21 - Referred to Transportation [HB4243 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB4243-Introduced.html
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| By: Talarico | H.B. No. 4243 | |
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| relating to a one-year moratorium on the collection of registration | ||
| and inspection fees for certain motor vehicles. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter E, Chapter 502, Transportation Code, | ||
| is amended by adding Section 502.19101 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 502.19101. ONE-YEAR REGISTRATION FEE MORATORIUM. (a) | ||
| This section applies to any fee imposed under this chapter for a | ||
| motor vehicle that weighs 10,000 pounds or less. | ||
| (b) Notwithstanding any other law, a person may not collect | ||
| a registration fee or any other fee under this chapter between | ||
| September 1, 2023, and August 31, 2024. | ||
| (c) For each motor vehicle registered or other transaction | ||
| performed for which a fee is authorized under this chapter, the | ||
| department shall deposit to the credit of the appropriate fund or | ||
| send to a political subdivision, as appropriate, an amount, | ||
| appropriated to the department for this purpose, that is equal to | ||
| the amount of the fees that would otherwise be deposited to that | ||
| fund or kept by or sent to the political subdivision for the | ||
| registration or transaction. | ||
| (d) This section expires September 1, 2024. | ||
| SECTION 2. Subchapter H, Chapter 548, Transportation Code, | ||
| is amended by adding Section 548.5015 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 548.5015. ONE-YEAR INSPECTION FEE MORATORIUM. (a) | ||
| This section applies to any fee imposed under this subchapter for | ||
| the inspection of a motor vehicle that weighs 10,000 pounds or less. | ||
| (b) Notwithstanding any other law, a person may not collect | ||
| an inspection fee under this subchapter between September 1, 2023, | ||
| and August 31, 2024. | ||
| (c) For each motor vehicle inspection performed for which a | ||
| fee is authorized under this subchapter, the department shall | ||
| deposit to the credit of the appropriate fund or send to a political | ||
| subdivision or inspection station, as appropriate, an amount, | ||
| appropriated to the department for this purpose, that is equal to | ||
| the amount of fees that would otherwise be deposited to that fund or | ||
| kept by the political subdivision or inspection station for the | ||
| inspection. | ||
| (d) This section expires September 1, 2024. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
