Bill Text: TX HB2981 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the operation on a highway or street of a motor vehicle that is drawing a boat or personal watercraft in or on which a child is riding; providing a penalty.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective on 9/1/11 [HB2981 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB2981-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 2981 | ||
|
|
||
| relating to the operation on a highway or street of a motor vehicle | ||
| that is drawing a boat or personal watercraft in or on which a child | ||
| is riding; providing a penalty. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter I, Chapter 545, Transportation Code, | ||
| is amended by adding Section 545.4145 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 545.4145. RIDING IN OR ON BOAT OR PERSONAL WATERCRAFT | ||
| DRAWN BY VEHICLE; OFFENSE. (a) A person commits an offense if the | ||
| person operates a motor vehicle on a highway or street when a child | ||
| younger than 18 years of age is occupying a boat or personal | ||
| watercraft being drawn by the motor vehicle. | ||
| (b) It is a defense to prosecution under this section that | ||
| the person was: | ||
| (1) operating the motor vehicle in a parade or in an | ||
| emergency; or | ||
| (2) operating the motor vehicle on a beach. | ||
| (c) In this section, "boat" and "personal watercraft" have | ||
| the meanings assigned by Section 31.003, Parks and Wildlife Code. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 2981 was passed by the House on May 3, | ||
| 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 143, Nays 1, 1 present, not | ||
| voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B. | ||
| No. 2981 on May 27, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 140, Nays 1, | ||
| 2 present, not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 2981 was passed by the Senate, with | ||
| amendments, on May 25, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays | ||
| 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: __________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| __________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
