Bill Text: TX HB4087 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the enforcement of commercial motor vehicle safety standards in certain municipalities.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2021-05-14 - Referred to Transportation [HB4087 Detail]

Download: Texas-2021-HB4087-Introduced.html

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87R7013 JTS-D
By: Burns H.B. No. 4087

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the enforcement of commercial motor vehicle safety
standards in certain municipalities.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 644.101(b), Transportation Code, as
reenacted and amended by Chapters 102 (S.B. 636), 163 (H.B. 695),
169 (H.B. 917), and 467 (H.B. 4170), Acts of the 86th Legislature,
Regular Session, 2019, is reenacted and amended to read as follows:
(b) A police officer of any of the following municipalities
is eligible to apply for certification under this section:
(1) a municipality with a population of 50,000 or
more;
(2) a municipality with a population of 25,000 or more
any part of which is located in a county with a population of
500,000 or more;
(3) a municipality with a population of less than
25,000:
(A) any part of which is located in a county with
a population of 3.3 million; and
(B) that contains or is adjacent to an
international port;
(4) a municipality with a population of at least
34,000 that is located in a county that borders two or more states;
(5) a municipality any part of which is located in a
county bordering the United Mexican States;
(6) a municipality with a population of less than
5,000 that is located:
(A) adjacent to a bay connected to the Gulf of
Mexico; and
(B) in a county adjacent to a county with a
population greater than 3.3 million;
(7) a municipality that is located:
(A) within 25 miles of an international port; and
(B) in a county that does not contain a highway
that is part of the national system of interstate and defense
highways and is adjacent to a county with a population greater than
3.3 million;
(8) a municipality with a population of less than
8,500 that:
(A) is the county seat; and
(B) contains a highway that is part of the
national system of interstate and defense highways;
(9) a municipality located in a county with a
population between 60,000 and 66,000 adjacent to a bay connected to
the Gulf of Mexico;
(10) a municipality with a population of more than
40,000 and less than 50,000 that is located in a county with a
population of more than 285,000 and less than 300,000 that borders
the Gulf of Mexico;
(11) a municipality with a population between 18,000
and 18,500 that is located entirely in a county that:
(A) has a population of less than 200,000;
(B) is adjacent to two counties that each have a
population of more than 1.2 million; and
(C) contains two highways that are part of the
national system of interstate and defense highways; [or]
(12) a municipality with a population of more than
3,000 and less than 10,000 that:
(A) contains a highway that is part of the
national system of interstate and defense highways; and
(B) is located in a county with a population
between 150,000 and 155,000; [or]
(13) a municipality with a population of less than
75,000 that is located in three counties, at least one of which has
a population greater than 3.3 million;
(14) [(13)] a municipality with a population between
14,000 and 17,000 that:
(A) contains three or more numbered United States
highways; and
(B) is located in a county that is adjacent to a
county with a population of more than 200,000;
(15) [(13)] a municipality with a population of less
than 50,000 that is located in:
(A) a county that generated $20 million or more
in tax revenue collected under Chapters 201 and 202, Tax Code, from
oil and gas production during the preceding state fiscal year; or
(B) a county that is adjacent to two or more
counties described by Paragraph (A); or
(16) a municipality with a population of more than
25,000 and less than 50,000 that:
(A) is located in a county with a population of
more than 150,000 and less than 200,000; and
(B) contains a toll project of a regional tollway
authority under Chapter 366 and a highway that is part of the
national system of interstate and defense highways.
SECTION 2. To the extent of any conflict, this Act prevails
over another Act of the 87th Legislature, Regular Session, 2021,
relating to nonsubstantive additions to and corrections in enacted
codes.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.