Bill Text: TX SB1865 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced

Texas Senate Bill 1865 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to a study by the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles of alternative registration technologies for commercial motor vehicles.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-23 - Referred to Transportation [SB1865 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-SB1865-Introduced.html

	85R8239 JXC-F

	By: Taylor of Galveston	S.B. No. 1865



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to a study by the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles of
	alternative registration technologies for commercial motor
	vehicles.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Chapter 1003, Transportation Code, is amended by
	adding Section 1003.006 to read as follows:
	Sec. 1003.006. STUDY ON REGISTRATION OF COMMERCIAL MOTOR
	VEHICLES. (a) The department shall:
	(1) conduct a study that:
	(A) identifies and assesses alternative
	technologies for registering commercial motor vehicles to replace
	license plates, permits, and other existing documentation and
	registration methods currently in use in this state; and
	(B) evaluates the safety and suitability for use
	on roadways of the technologies identified under Paragraph (A); and
	(2) submit a report on the results of the study to the
	governor, the lieutenant governor, the speaker of the house of
	representatives, and the chair of the standing committee of each
	house of the legislature with primary jurisdiction over
	transportation issues not later than December 21, 2018.
	(b) The department may collaborate with another state
	agency or a research division of an institution of higher education
	in this state to conduct the study.
	(c) This section expires January 1, 2019.
	SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
	a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
	provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
	Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
	Act takes effect September 1, 2017.