By:  Hirschi                                           H.B. No. 630
       73R2585 DWS-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to hand signals for bicycle operators.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 70, 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        Sec. 70.  Method Of Giving Hand-And-Arm Signals.  All signals
    1-8  herein required given by hand and arm shall be given from the left
    1-9  side of the vehicle in the following manner and such signals shall
   1-10  indicate as follows:
   1-11              1.  Left turn.  Hand and arm extended horizontally.
   1-12              2.  Right turn.  Hand and arm extended upward, except
   1-13  that a bicycle operator may signal from the right side of the
   1-14  vehicle with hand and arm extended horizontally.
   1-15              3.  Stop or decrease speed.  Hand and arm extended
   1-16  downward.
   1-17        The signals herein required shall be given either by means of
   1-18  the hand-and-arm, or by a signal lamp or signal device approved by
   1-19  the department.
   1-20        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-21  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-22  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-23  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-24  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-1  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    2-2  passage, and it is so enacted.