Bill Text: TX HB2838 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the exclusion of the operation of certain vehicles from commercial driver's license requirements.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-28 - Left pending in committee [HB2838 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB2838-Introduced.html
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By: Burns | H.B. No. 2838 |
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relating to the exclusion of the operation of certain vehicles from | ||
commercial driver's license requirements. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 522.004(a), Transportation Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) This chapter does not apply to: | ||
(1) a vehicle that is controlled and operated by a | ||
farmer and: | ||
(A) used to transport agricultural products, | ||
farm machinery, or farm supplies to or from a farm; | ||
(B) used within 150 miles of the person's farm; | ||
and | ||
(C) not used in the operations of a common or | ||
contract motor carrier; | ||
(2) a fire-fighting or emergency vehicle necessary to | ||
the preservation of life or property or the execution of emergency | ||
governmental functions, whether operated by an employee of a | ||
political subdivision or by a volunteer fire fighter; | ||
(3) a military vehicle or a commercial motor vehicle, | ||
when operated for military purposes by military personnel, | ||
including: | ||
(A) active duty military personnel, including | ||
personnel serving in the United States Coast Guard; and | ||
(B) members of the reserves and national guard on | ||
active duty, including personnel on full-time national guard duty, | ||
personnel engaged in part-time training, and national guard | ||
military technicians; | ||
(4) a recreational vehicle that is driven for personal | ||
use; | ||
(5) a vehicle that is owned, leased, or controlled by | ||
an air carrier, as defined by Section 21.155, and that is driven or | ||
operated exclusively by an employee of the air carrier only on the | ||
premises of an airport, as defined by Section 22.001, on service | ||
roads to which the public does not have access; | ||
(6) a vehicle used exclusively to transport seed | ||
cotton modules or cotton burrs; | ||
(7) a vehicle, including a vehicle described by | ||
Section 504.502(i), that is: | ||
(A) operated intrastate; and | ||
(B) driven by an individual not for compensation | ||
and not in the furtherance of a commercial enterprise; [ |
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(8) a covered farm vehicle as defined by 49 C.F.R. | ||
Section 390.5; | ||
(9) a vehicle that: | ||
(A) is operated only within 150 miles of the | ||
vehicle's primary storage location; | ||
(B) has a gross vehicle weight rating, gross | ||
combination weight rating, or gross vehicle weight of 48,000 pounds | ||
or less; and | ||
(C) is not: | ||
(i) equipped with air brakes; | ||
(ii) designed to transport 16 or more | ||
passengers, including the driver; or | ||
(iii) transporting hazardous materials | ||
that require placarding under 49 C.F.R. Part 172, Subpart F; or | ||
(10) a vehicle that is owned or operated by an agency | ||
of this state unless the vehicle is designed to transport 16 or more | ||
passengers, including the driver. | ||
SECTION 2. As soon as practicable after the effective date | ||
of this Act, the comptroller of public accounts shall: | ||
(1) determine whether any transfer of money for | ||
deposit to the Texas mobility fund is necessary to comply with | ||
Section 49-k, Article III, Texas Constitution; and | ||
(2) transfer any amount determined to be necessary | ||
under Subdivision (1) to the Texas mobility fund from the general | ||
revenue fund. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |