Bill Text: TX HB3087 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the definitions of highway maintenance and service vehicles for purposes of certain provisions governing vehicle equipment.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 2)
Status: (Passed) 2017-06-15 - Effective on 9/1/17 [HB3087 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB3087-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 3087 | ||
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| relating to the definitions of highway maintenance and service | ||
| vehicles for purposes of certain provisions governing vehicle | ||
| equipment. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 547.001, Transportation Code, is amended | ||
| by adding Subdivisions (2-b) and (6-a) to read as follows: | ||
| (2-b) "Highway maintenance vehicle" means a highway or | ||
| traffic maintenance vehicle designated by the Texas Department of | ||
| Transportation. The term includes equipment for: | ||
| (A) road maintenance, including: | ||
| (i) equipment for snow removal, line | ||
| striping, skid resistance testing, sweeping, and spraying; | ||
| (ii) aerial platform lift machines; and | ||
| (iii) road profiler machines; and | ||
| (B) off-road use, including motor graders, road | ||
| rollers, excavators, pneumatic tire equipment, movers, and | ||
| tractors. | ||
| (6-a) "Service vehicle" means a highway or traffic | ||
| maintenance vehicle that: | ||
| (A) is owned and operated on a highway by or for a | ||
| governmental agency and performs a function requiring the use of a | ||
| lamp or illuminating device in accordance with the standards and | ||
| specifications adopted under Section 547.105; or | ||
| (B) has a public service function, including | ||
| public utility vehicles, tow trucks, and any vehicle designated as | ||
| a service vehicle by the Texas Department of Transportation or as an | ||
| escort flag vehicle under Section 623.099. | ||
| SECTION 2. The heading to Section 547.105, Transportation | ||
| Code, is amended to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 547.105. MAINTENANCE AND SERVICE VEHICLE [ |
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| LIGHTING STANDARDS. | ||
| SECTION 3. Sections 547.105(a) and (b), Transportation | ||
| Code, are amended to read as follows: | ||
| (a) The Texas Department of Transportation shall adopt | ||
| standards and specifications that: | ||
| (1) apply to lamps on highway maintenance and service | ||
| vehicles [ |
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| (2) correlate with and conform as closely as possible | ||
| to standards and specifications approved by the American | ||
| Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials. | ||
| (b) The Texas Department of Transportation may adopt | ||
| standards and specifications for lighting that permit the use of | ||
| flashing lights for identification purposes on highway maintenance | ||
| and service vehicles [ |
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| SECTION 4. Section 547.305(e), Transportation Code, is | ||
| amended to read as follows: | ||
| (e) A person may not operate a highway maintenance or | ||
| service vehicle [ |
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| that is not equipped with lamps or that does not display lighted | ||
| lamps as required by the standards and specifications adopted by | ||
| the Texas Department of Transportation. | ||
| SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 3087 was passed by the House on May 9, | ||
| 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 142, Nays 3, 2 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 3087 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 24, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
