Bill Text: TX SB1437 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to payment for the use of a highway toll project.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2017-05-19 - Committee report sent to Calendars [SB1437 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB1437-Comm_Sub.html
| By: Schwertner, et al. | S.B. No. 1437 | |
| (Burkett) | ||
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| relating to payment for the use of a highway toll project. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 228.057, Transportation Code, is amended | ||
| by adding Subsection (i) to read as follows: | ||
| (i) The department shall provide electronic toll collection | ||
| customers with an option to authorize automatic payment of tolls | ||
| through the withdrawal of funds from the customer's bank account. | ||
| SECTION 2. Subchapter B, Chapter 372, Transportation Code, | ||
| is amended by adding Sections 372.054, 372.055, and 372.056 to read | ||
| as follows: | ||
| Sec. 372.054. DETERMINATION OF ELECTRONIC TOLL COLLECTION | ||
| CUSTOMER ACCOUNT BEFORE PAYMENT SOLICITATION. (a) A toll project | ||
| entity may not send an invoice or a notice of unpaid tolls to the | ||
| registered owner of a vehicle soliciting payment of a toll or any | ||
| related administrative fee unless the entity first determines | ||
| whether there is an active electronic toll collection customer | ||
| account that corresponds to a transponder issued for the vehicle. | ||
| (b) If a toll project entity determines under Subsection (a) | ||
| that there is a sufficiently funded electronic toll collection | ||
| customer account that corresponds to a transponder issued for the | ||
| vehicle, the entity must: | ||
| (1) satisfy the outstanding toll from the account at | ||
| the standard electronic collection rate and may not collect any | ||
| administrative fees or late fees; and | ||
| (2) if the entity determines that a transponder issued | ||
| to an electronic toll collection customer did not work correctly | ||
| more than 10 times in a 30-day period, send to the customer a notice | ||
| informing the customer that the transponder issued for the | ||
| customer's vehicle may not be working correctly. | ||
| Sec. 372.055. INFORMATION REQUIRED ON NOTICE OR INVOICE. A | ||
| notice or an invoice of unpaid tolls sent by a toll project entity | ||
| under Section 372.054 or any other section must clearly state that | ||
| the document is a bill and the recipient is expected to pay the | ||
| amount indicated. | ||
| Sec. 372.056. METHOD OF SENDING INVOICE OR NOTICE. An | ||
| invoice or notice provided to a person by a toll project entity | ||
| under this subchapter may be provided by: | ||
| (1) first class mail; or | ||
| (2) e-mail if the person has provided an e-mail | ||
| address to the entity and has elected to receive notice | ||
| electronically. | ||
| SECTION 3. The change in law made by this Act applies only | ||
| to the collection of a toll incurred on or after the effective date | ||
| of this Act. The collection of a toll incurred before the effective | ||
| date of this Act is governed by the law in effect immediately before | ||
| the effective date of this Act, and that law is continued in effect | ||
| for that purpose. | ||
| SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
