By: Gamez (Senate Sponsor - Alvarado) H.B. No. 3126

(In the Senate - Received from the House May 3, 2023; May 5, 2023, read first time and referred to Committee on Transportation; May 17, 2023, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 17, 2023, sent to printer.) Click here to see the committee vote

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the definitions of "pass" and "passing" used in reference to a vehicle.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Section 545.001(2), Transportation Code, is amended to read as follows:

(2) "Pass" or "passing" used in reference to a vehicle means:

(A) to:

(i) overtake and proceed past another vehicle moving in the same direction as the passing vehicle; and

(ii) return to the original lane of travel; or

(B) to attempt the [that] maneuver described by Paragraph (A).

SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.

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