Bill Text: TX HB787 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Comm Sub

Texas House Bill 787

Bill Title: Relating to the restarting of a vehicle's battery while the vehicle is being transported on the Galveston-Port Bolivar ferry; authorizing a fee.

Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2025-04-28 - Postponed 1/3/2030 12:00 PM [HB787 Detail]

Download: Texas-2025-HB787-Comm_Sub.html

	89R8981 AND-D

	By: Leo Wilson, et al.	H.B. No. 787

	Substitute the following for H.B. No. 787:

	By: Craddick	C.S.H.B. No. 787



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to the restarting of a vehicle's battery while the vehicle
	is being transported on the Galveston-Port Bolivar ferry;
	authorizing a fee.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 342, Transportation Code,
	is amended by adding Section 342.005 to read as follows:
	Sec. 342.005. RESTARTING VEHICLE BATTERY ON GALVESTON-PORT
	BOLIVAR FERRY. (a) The operator of a vehicle being transported on
	the Galveston-Port Bolivar ferry operated by the department may
	attempt to restart the vehicle's battery only if a ferry employee
	confirms the absence of hazardous gas. At the request of the
	vehicle operator, a ferry employee who has completed the training
	described by Subsection (b) shall check for hazardous gas.
	(b) The department shall:
	(1) provide training to ferry employees regarding the
	safe use of equipment to detect hazardous gas; and
	(2) provide and maintain in good operating condition
	equipment for detecting hazardous gas.
	(c) The department may charge a fee for providing the
	service described by Subsection (a) in an amount set by the
	department that is reasonable and necessary to cover the costs of
	administering this section.
	(d) Nothing in this section requires a ferry employee to
	attempt to restart the battery of a vehicle being transported on the
	Galveston-Port Bolivar ferry operated by the department.
	SECTION 2. Not later than December 1, 2025, the Texas
	Department of Transportation shall adopt rules necessary to
	administer Section 342.005, Transportation Code, as added by this
	Act.
	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.