Bill Text: TX HB153 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the authority of the public safety director of the Department of Public Safety to adopt rules requiring the use and installation of intrastate commercial motor vehicle electronic logging devices.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-02-13 - Referred to Transportation [HB153 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-HB153-Introduced.html

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86R158 JAM-D
By: White H.B. No. 153

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the authority of the public safety director of the
Department of Public Safety to adopt rules requiring the use and
installation of intrastate commercial motor vehicle electronic
logging devices.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 644.053(a), Transportation Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(a) A rule adopted under this chapter may not:
(1) prevent an intrastate operator from operating a
vehicle up to 12 hours following eight consecutive hours off;
(2) require a person to meet the medical standards
provided in the federal motor carrier safety regulations if the
person:
(A) was regularly employed in this state as a
commercial motor vehicle operator in intrastate commerce before
August 28, 1989; and
(B) is not transporting property that requires a
hazardous material placard;
(3) require a person who returns to the work-reporting
location, is released from work within 12 consecutive hours, has at
least eight consecutive hours off between each 12-hour period the
person is on duty, and operates within a 150-air-mile radius of the
normal work-reporting location to maintain a driver's record of
duty status as described by 49 C.F.R. Section 395.8, provided that
the person maintains time records in compliance with 49 C.F.R.
Section 395.1(e)(5) and documents that verify the truth and
accuracy of the time records such as:
(A) business records maintained by the owner that
provide the date, time, and location of the delivery of a product or
service; or
(B) documents required to be maintained by law,
including delivery tickets or sales invoices, that provide the date
of delivery and the quantity of merchandise delivered; [or]
(4) impose during a planting or harvesting season
maximum driving and on-duty times on an operator of a vehicle
transporting an agricultural commodity in intrastate commerce for
agricultural purposes from the source of the commodity to the first
place of processing or storage or the distribution point for the
commodity, if the place is located within 150 air miles of the
source; or
(5) require an electronic logging device:
(A) to record an intrastate operator's duty
status; or
(B) to be installed in a commercial motor vehicle
used only for intrastate commerce.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.