Bill Text: TX HB3415 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to driving on an improved shoulder.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-05-08 - Placed on General State Calendar [HB3415 Detail]

Download: Texas-2013-HB3415-Introduced.html
  83R12758 JRR-D
 
  By: Flynn H.B. No. 3415
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to driving on an improved shoulder.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 545.058(c), Transportation Code, is
  amended to read as follows:
         (c)  A limitation in this section on driving on an improved
  shoulder does not apply to:
               (1)  an authorized emergency vehicle responding to a
  call;
               (2)  a police patrol; [or]
               (3)  a bicycle; or
               (4)  a slow-moving vehicle, as defined by Section
  547.001.
         SECTION 2.  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, 2013.
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