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Texas Transportation Code § 504.6012

Elimination of Dedicated Revenue Accounts; Revenues in Trust

License Plates · Specialty License Plates for General Distribution

(a) Notwithstanding any other law, not later than September 30, 2025, the comptroller shall eliminate all dedicated accounts established for specialty license plates and shall set aside the balances of those dedicated accounts so that the balances may be appropriated only for the purposes intended as provided by the dedications.

(b) On and after September 1, 2025, the portion of a fee payable that is designated for deposit to a dedicated account shall be paid instead to the credit of an account in a trust fund created by the comptroller outside the general revenue fund. The comptroller shall administer the trust fund and accounts and may allocate the corpus and earnings on each account only in accordance with the dedications of the revenue deposited to the trust fund accounts.

Official text of the Texas Transportation Code as published by the Texas Legislative Council.

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Legislative history

Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1173 (H.B. 3317), Sec. 15, eff. September 1, 2019.

Acts 2021, 87th Leg., R.S., Ch. 829 (H.B. 2896), Sec. 14, eff. September 1, 2021.

Acts 2023, 88th Leg., R.S., Ch. 858 (H.B. 3461), Sec. 17, eff. September 1, 2023.

Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 662 (H.B. 4488), Sec. 15, eff. September 1, 2025.

Sections that refer to this one

Health & Safety § 162.016Health & Safety § 533A.018Health & Safety § 828.014Hum. Res. § 81.021§ 504.655§ 504.665§ 504.667§ 504.669§ 504.670§ 504.672§ 504.673§ 504.676§ 504.677§ 504.678§ 504.680§ 504.682