Bill Text: TX SB2004 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the operation of a public transit motor bus by certain mass transit entities on an improved shoulder.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-27 - Referred to Transportation [SB2004 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-SB2004-Introduced.html

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85R3364 AAF-D
By: Watson S.B. No. 2004

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the operation of a public transit motor bus by certain
mass transit entities on an improved shoulder.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 545.058(c), Transportation Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(c) A limitation in this section on driving on an improved
shoulder does not apply to:
(1) an authorized emergency vehicle responding to a
call;
(2) a police patrol; [or]
(3) a bicycle; or
(4) a public transit motor bus of a mass transit entity
operating under Subtitle K, Title 6, if the motor bus is operating:
(A) within the boundaries of a metropolitan
planning organization in which:
(i) at least five counties are located; and
(ii) the two counties with the largest
populations are part of a regional mobility authority governed by
Chapter 370; and
(B) on the shoulder of a highway designated by
the Texas Department of Transportation.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.