By:  Jackson                                           H.B. No. 450
       73R2168 JD-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the safe operation of motor carriers on highways.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 139(f), Uniform Act Regulating Traffic on
    1-5  Highways (Article 6701d, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended
    1-6  to read as follows:
    1-7        (f)  Any peace officer of any city having a population of
    1-8  25,000 <300,000> or more, certified for this purpose by the
    1-9  Director, may detain any motor vehicle on any street or highway
   1-10  within such city subject to this section or to any regulation
   1-11  adopted in accordance with this section.  Such certification
   1-12  procedures including the proper training of said officers shall be
   1-13  determined by the Department.  The Department by rule may establish
   1-14  reasonable fees sufficient to recover from a city the costs of
   1-15  training and certifying peace officers of the city under this
   1-16  section.
   1-17        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   1-18        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-19  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-20  emergency   and   an   imperative   public   necessity   that   the
   1-21  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-22  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.