Bill Text: TX HB812 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to standing in a roadway; amending provisions subject to a criminal penalty.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2017-05-24 - Placed on intent calendar [HB812 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB812-Comm_Sub.html
| By: Wu, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Garcia) | H.B. No. 812 | |
| (In the Senate - Received from the House May 8, 2017; | ||
| May 9, 2017, read first time and referred to Committee on | ||
| Transportation; May 17, 2017, reported favorably by the following | ||
| vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 17, 2017, sent to printer.) | ||
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| relating to standing in a roadway; amending provisions subject to a | ||
| criminal penalty. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. The heading to Section 552.007, Transportation | ||
| Code, is amended to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 552.007. [ |
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| SECTION 2. Section 552.007(a), Transportation Code, is | ||
| amended to read as follows: | ||
| (a) A person may not stand in a roadway in a manner that | ||
| impedes vehicular traffic or presents a danger to the person or | ||
| another person unless [ |
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| authorized to do so by the local authority having jurisdiction over | ||
| the roadway. | ||
| SECTION 3. Sections 552.006(b), 552.007(b) and (c), and | ||
| 552.0071, Transportation Code, are repealed. | ||
| SECTION 4. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to | ||
| an offense committed on or after the effective date of this Act. An | ||
| offense committed before the effective date of this Act is governed | ||
| by the law in effect on the date the offense was committed, and the | ||
| former law is continued in effect for that purpose. For purposes of | ||
| this section, an offense was committed before the effective date of | ||
| this Act if any element of the offense occurred before that date. | ||
| SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
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