Bill Text: TX HB3651 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to exempting certain trailers from being equipped with emergency brakes.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2017-05-10 - Referred to Transportation [HB3651 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB3651-Introduced.html
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By: Wray | H.B. No. 3651 |
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relating to exempting certain trailers from being equipped with | ||
emergency brakes. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 547.405(d), Transportation Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(d) A trailer, semitrailer, or pole trailer that is equipped | ||
with air or vacuum brakes or that has a gross weight heavier than | ||
4,500 [ |
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(1) operate on all wheels required to have brakes | ||
under Section 547.402; and | ||
(2) are promptly applied automatically and remain | ||
applied for at least 15 minutes in case of a breakaway from the | ||
towing vehicle. | ||
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only | ||
to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this Act. | ||
An offense committed before the effective date of this Act is | ||
governed by the law in effect on the date the offense was committed, | ||
and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. For | ||
purposes of this section, an offense was committed before the | ||
effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurred | ||
before that date. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |