1-1 By: Hirschi (Senate Sponsor - Carriker) H.B. No. 629
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House March 30, 1993;
1-3 March 31, 1993, read first time and referred to Committee on State
1-4 Affairs; May 3, 1993, reported favorably by the following vote:
1-5 Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 3, 1993, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-7 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-8 Harris of Dallas x
1-9 Rosson x
1-10 Carriker x
1-11 Henderson x
1-12 Leedom x
1-13 Lucio x
1-14 Luna x
1-15 Nelson x
1-16 Patterson x
1-17 Shelley x
1-18 Sibley x
1-19 West x
1-20 Whitmire x
1-21 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-22 AN ACT
1-23 relating to riding a bicycle on a shoulder of a street or highway.
1-24 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-25 SECTION 1. Section 54A(c), Uniform Act Regulating Traffic on
1-26 Highways (Article 6701d, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended
1-27 to read as follows:
1-28 (c) The provisions of this section limiting the operation of
1-29 vehicles upon improved shoulders shall not apply to:
1-30 (1) authorized emergency vehicles responding to calls;
1-31 (2) police patrols; <or>
1-32 (3) vehicles and equipment actually engaged in work
1-33 upon a highway but shall apply to such persons and vehicles when
1-34 traveling to or from such work; or
1-35 (4) bicycles.
1-36 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-37 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-38 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-39 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-40 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-41 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-42 passage, and it is so enacted.
1-43 * * * * *
1-44 Austin,
1-45 Texas
1-46 May 3, 1993
1-47 Hon. Bob Bullock
1-48 President of the Senate
1-49 Sir:
1-50 We, your Committee on State Affairs to which was referred H.B.
1-51 No. 629, have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed
1-52 to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do
1-53 pass and be printed.
1-54 Harris of
1-55 Dallas, Chairman
1-56 * * * * *
1-57 WITNESSES
1-58 FOR AGAINST ON
1-59 ___________________________________________________________________
1-60 Name: Charles Gandy x
1-61 Representing: Texas Bicycle Coalition
1-62 City: Austin
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