Bill Text: TX SB2159 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced

Texas Senate Bill 2159 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to allowing operators of motor vehicles to treat a stop sign as a yield sign at certain intersections.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-21 - Referred to Transportation [SB2159 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-SB2159-Introduced.html

	86R14186 MP-F

	By: Buckingham	S.B. No. 2159



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to allowing operators of motor vehicles to treat a stop
	sign as a yield sign at certain intersections.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 545, Transportation Code,
	is amended by adding Section 545.1531 to read as follows:
	Sec. 545.1531. STOP SIGN CONSIDERED YIELD SIGN IN CERTAIN
	CIRCUMSTANCES. (a) The provisions of Sections 544.010 and
	545.151(a) applicable to stop signs do not apply to the operator of
	a vehicle approaching an intersection with a stop sign and no other
	traffic-control signal or police officer directing traffic, if:
	(1) no pedestrian is in the intersection; and
	(2) no vehicle on the other street or roadway is in the
	intersection or approaching the intersection in such proximity as
	to be a hazard.
	(b) A person operating a vehicle and approaching an
	intersection as described by Subsection (a) shall:
	(1) when approaching the intersection, slow to a speed
	that is reasonable under existing conditions, not to exceed 10
	miles per hour; and
	(2) comply with the provisions of Section 545.153
	applicable to yield signs when approaching the intersection.
	SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to
	an offense committed on or after the effective date of this Act. An
	offense committed before the effective date of this Act is governed
	by the law in effect on the date the offense was committed, and the
	former law is continued in effect for that purpose. For purposes of
	this section, an offense was committed before the effective date of
	this Act if any element of the offense was committed before that
	date.
	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.