Bill Text: TX HB2048 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the criminal offense of passing certain vehicles on a highway.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2021-06-04 - Effective on 9/1/21 [HB2048 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB2048-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 2048 | ||
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| relating to the criminal offense of passing certain vehicles on a | ||
| highway. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 545.157(a), Transportation Code, is | ||
| amended to read as follows: | ||
| (a) This section applies only to the following vehicles: | ||
| (1) a stationary authorized emergency vehicle using | ||
| visual signals that meet the requirements of Sections 547.305 and | ||
| 547.702; | ||
| (2) a stationary tow truck using equipment authorized | ||
| by Section 547.305(d); | ||
| (3) a Texas Department of Transportation vehicle or a | ||
| highway maintenance or construction vehicle operated pursuant to a | ||
| contract awarded under Subchapter A, Chapter 223, not separated | ||
| from the roadway by a traffic control channelizing device and using | ||
| visual signals that comply with the standards and specifications | ||
| adopted under Section 547.105; | ||
| (4) a service vehicle used by or for a utility, as | ||
| defined by Section 203.091, and using visual signals that comply | ||
| with the standards and specifications adopted under Section | ||
| 547.105; [ |
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| (5) a stationary vehicle used exclusively to transport | ||
| municipal solid waste, as defined by Section 361.003, Health and | ||
| Safety Code, or recyclable material, as defined by Section 361.421, | ||
| Health and Safety Code, while being operated in connection with the | ||
| removal or transportation of municipal solid waste or recyclable | ||
| material from a location adjacent to the highway; and | ||
| (6) a vehicle operated by or pursuant to a contract | ||
| with a toll project entity, as defined by Section 372.001, using | ||
| visual signals that comply with the standards and specifications | ||
| adopted under Section 547.105. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 2048 was passed by the House on April | ||
| 30, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 119, Nays 22, 2 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 2048 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 20, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 29, Nays 2. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
