Bill Text: TX HB64 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to the peace officers authorized to operate an authorized emergency vehicle used to conduct a police escort.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2023-06-18 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB64 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB64-Comm_Sub.html

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By: Landgraf (Senate Sponsor - Sparks) H.B. No. 64
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 12, 2023;
May 2, 2023, read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal
Justice; May 19, 2023, reported favorably by the following vote:
Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 19, 2023, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the peace officers authorized to operate an authorized
emergency vehicle used to conduct a police escort.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 546.002(a), Transportation Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(a) In this section, "police escort" means facilitating the
movement of a funeral, oversized or hazardous load, or other
traffic disruption for public safety purposes by a peace officer
described by Articles 2.12(1)-(4), (8), (12), (17)(B), and (22),
Code of Criminal Procedure.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.
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