Bill Text: TX HB4196 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the definition of an authorized emergency vehicle.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-25 - Referred to Transportation [HB4196 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB4196-Introduced.html
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| relating to the definition of an authorized emergency vehicle. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 541.201, Transportation Code, is amended | ||
| by adding Subdivision (1)(L) to read as follow: | ||
| (1) "Authorized emergency vehicle" means: | ||
| (A) a fire department or police vehicle; | ||
| (B) a public or private ambulance operated by a | ||
| person who has been issued a license by the Department of State | ||
| Health Services; | ||
| (C) an emergency medical services vehicle: | ||
| (i) authorized under an emergency medical | ||
| services provider license issued by the Department of State Health | ||
| Services under Chapter 773, Health and Safety Code; and | ||
| (ii) operating under a contract with an | ||
| emergency services district that requires the emergency medical | ||
| services provider to respond to emergency calls with the vehicle; | ||
| (D) a municipal department or public service | ||
| corporation emergency vehicle that has been designated or | ||
| authorized by the governing body of a municipality; | ||
| (E) a county-owned or county-leased emergency | ||
| management vehicle that has been designated or authorized by the | ||
| commissioners court; | ||
| (F) a vehicle that has been designated by the | ||
| department under Section 546.0065; | ||
| (G) a private vehicle of a volunteer firefighter | ||
| or a certified emergency medical services employee or volunteer | ||
| when responding to a fire alarm or medical emergency; | ||
| (H) an industrial emergency response vehicle, | ||
| including an industrial ambulance, when responding to an emergency, | ||
| but only if the vehicle is operated in compliance with criteria in | ||
| effect September 1, 1989, and established by the predecessor of the | ||
| Texas Industrial Emergency Services Board of the State Firemen's | ||
| and Fire Marshals' Association of Texas; | ||
| (I) a vehicle of a blood bank or tissue bank, | ||
| accredited or approved under the laws of this state or the United | ||
| States, when making emergency deliveries of blood, drugs, | ||
| medicines, or organs; | ||
| (J) a vehicle used for law enforcement purposes | ||
| that is owned or leased by a federal governmental entity; or | ||
| (K) a private vehicle of an employee or volunteer | ||
| of a county emergency management division in a county with a | ||
| population of more than 46,500 and less than 48,000 that is | ||
| designated as an authorized emergency vehicle by the commissioners | ||
| court of that county. | ||
| (L) a county road maintenance vehicle. | ||
| 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, 2019. | ||
