H.B. No. 629
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to riding a bicycle on a shoulder of a street or highway.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 54A(c), 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        (c)  The provisions of this section limiting the operation of
    1-8  vehicles upon improved shoulders shall not apply to:
    1-9              (1)  authorized emergency vehicles responding to calls;
   1-10              (2)  police patrols; <or>
   1-11              (3)  vehicles and equipment actually engaged in work
   1-12  upon a highway but shall apply to such persons and vehicles when
   1-13  traveling to or from such work; or
   1-14              (4)  bicycles.
   1-15        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-16  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-17  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-18  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-19  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-20  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-21  passage, and it is so enacted.