Bill Text: TX SB1376 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to prohibiting the sale and use of certain radar interference devices; creating an offense.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-04-28 - Not again placed on intent calendar [SB1376 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-SB1376-Comm_Sub.html
| By: Shapiro | S.B. No. 1376 | |
| (In the Senate - Filed March 9, 2011; March 22, 2011, read | ||
| first time and referred to Committee on Transportation and Homeland | ||
| Security; April 18, 2011, reported favorably by the following | ||
| vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0; April 18, 2011, sent to printer.) | ||
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| relating to prohibiting the sale and use of certain radar | ||
| interference devices; creating an offense. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter K, Chapter 547, Transportation Code, | ||
| is amended by adding Section 547.616 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 547.616. RADAR INTERFERENCE DEVICES; OFFENSE. (a) In | ||
| this section, "radar interference device" means a device, a | ||
| mechanism, an instrument, or equipment that is designed, | ||
| manufactured, used, or intended to be used to interfere with, | ||
| scramble, disrupt, or otherwise cause to malfunction a radar or | ||
| laser device used to measure the speed of a motor vehicle by a law | ||
| enforcement agency of this state or a political subdivision of this | ||
| state, including a "radar jamming device," "jammer," "scrambler," | ||
| or "diffuser." The term does not include a ham radio, band radio, | ||
| or similar electronic device. | ||
| (b) A person, other than a law enforcement officer in the | ||
| discharge of the officer's official duties, may not use, attempt to | ||
| use, install, operate, or attempt to operate a radar interference | ||
| device in a motor vehicle operated by the person. | ||
| (c) A person may not purchase, sell, or offer for sale a | ||
| radar interference device to be used in a manner described by | ||
| Subsection (b). | ||
| (d) A person who violates this section commits an | ||
| offense. An offense under this subsection is a Class C | ||
| misdemeanor. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011. | ||
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