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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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AN ACT
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relating to the operation of a public transit motor bus by certain |
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mass transit entities on an improved shoulder. |
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BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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SECTION 1. Section 545.058(c), Transportation Code, is |
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amended to read as follows: |
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(c) A limitation in this section on driving on an improved |
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shoulder does not apply to: |
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(1) an authorized emergency vehicle responding to a |
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call; |
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(2) a police patrol; |
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(3) a bicycle; [or] |
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(4) a slow-moving vehicle, as defined by Section |
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547.001; or |
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(5) a public transit motor bus of a mass transit entity |
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operating under Subtitle K, Title 6, if the motor bus is: |
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(A) operating within the boundaries of a |
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metropolitan planning organization in which: |
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(i) at least five counties are located; and |
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(ii) the two counties with the largest |
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populations are part of a regional mobility authority governed by |
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Chapter 370; and |
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(B) bypassing traffic on a highway that is under |
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construction by operating on a shoulder designated by the Texas |
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Department of Transportation. |
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SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. |