Bill Text: TX HB1906 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the idling of motor vehicles; providing a criminal penalty.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective on 9/1/11 [HB1906 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB1906-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the idling of motor vehicles; providing a criminal penalty.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective on 9/1/11 [HB1906 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB1906-Comm_Sub.html
By: Howard of Travis (Senate Sponsor - Fraser) | H.B. No. 1906 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 27, 2011; | ||
May 3, 2011, read first time and referred to Committee on Natural | ||
Resources; May 11, 2011, reported favorably by the following vote: | ||
Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 11, 2011, sent to printer.) |
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relating to the idling of motor vehicles; providing a criminal | ||
penalty. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter E, Chapter 7, Water Code, is amended | ||
by adding Section 7.1831 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 7.1831. VIOLATION OF LOCALLY ENFORCED MOTOR VEHICLE | ||
IDLING LIMITATIONS. (a) A person commits an offense if the person | ||
violates a rule adopted by the commission concerning locally | ||
enforced motor vehicle idling limitations. | ||
(b) Notwithstanding any other law, an offense under this | ||
section is a Class C misdemeanor. | ||
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies 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 when the offense was committed, and | ||
the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. For | ||
purposes of this section, an offense is committed before the | ||
effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurs | ||
before that date. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011. | ||
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