Bill Text: TX SB1917 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the definition of an authorized emergency vehicle.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 2)
Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective immediately [SB1917 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-SB1917-Enrolled.html
| S.B. No. 1917 | ||
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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. Subdivision (1), Section 541.201, | ||
| Transportation Code, is amended to read as follows: | ||
| (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 [ |
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| State Health Services; | ||
| (C) a municipal department or public service | ||
| corporation emergency vehicle that has been designated or | ||
| authorized by the governing body of a municipality; | ||
| (D) 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; | ||
| (E) 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; | ||
| (F) 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; [ |
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| (G) a vehicle used for law enforcement purposes | ||
| that is owned or leased by a federal governmental entity; or | ||
| (H) 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. | ||
| 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, 2013. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1917 passed the Senate on | ||
| May 15, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1917 passed the House on | ||
| May 22, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 148, Nays 0, two | ||
| present not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| Approved: | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
