Bill Text: TX HB1263 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the ability of a local authority to designate school crossing zones and school crosswalks at high school campuses located in certain municipalities.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-09 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB1263 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB1263-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 1263 | ||
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| relating to the ability of a local authority to designate school | ||
| crossing zones and school crosswalks at high school campuses | ||
| located in certain municipalities. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 542.203, Transportation Code, is amended | ||
| by adding Subsections (d) and (e) to read as follows: | ||
| (d) A local authority's standards, policies, orders, | ||
| ordinances, regulations, or other measures that designate a school | ||
| crossing zone or school crosswalk must include a high school campus | ||
| that is located in a municipality with a population of two million | ||
| or more. | ||
| (e) On request of an administrator of a high school campus | ||
| described by Subsection (d), a local authority shall determine the | ||
| components, including any engineering report, necessary to | ||
| designate a school crossing zone or school crosswalk at the campus | ||
| and shall make the designation. This subsection does not apply to a | ||
| high school campus undergoing major expansion or new construction | ||
| that requires the preparation of a traffic impact analysis as part | ||
| of the permitting process. | ||
| SECTION 2. Not later than September 1, 2023, a local | ||
| authority described by Section 542.203(d), Transportation Code, as | ||
| added by this Act, shall: | ||
| (1) update all applicable school zone standards, | ||
| policies, orders, ordinances, and regulations to comply with that | ||
| section; and | ||
| (2) post the updates described by Subdivision (1) of | ||
| this section on a publicly accessible Internet website with clear | ||
| instructions describing the process by which a designation request | ||
| may be made under Section 542.203(e), Transportation Code, as added | ||
| by this Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 1263 was passed by the House on April | ||
| 13, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 141, Nays 7, 2 present, not | ||
| voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B. | ||
| No. 1263 on May 19, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 138, Nays 4, | ||
| 2 present, not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 1263 was passed by the Senate, with | ||
| amendments, on May 16, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays | ||
| 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: __________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| __________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
