1-1 By: Hirschi (Senate Sponsor - Barrientos) H.B. No. 630 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 21, 1993, reported favorably by the following vote: 1-5 Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 21, 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 hand signals for bicycle operators. 1-24 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-25 SECTION 1. Section 70, 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 Sec. 70. Method Of Giving Hand-And-Arm Signals. All signals 1-29 herein required given by hand and arm shall be given from the left 1-30 side of the vehicle in the following manner and such signals shall 1-31 indicate as follows: 1-32 1. Left turn. Hand and arm extended horizontally. 1-33 2. Right turn. Hand and arm extended upward, except 1-34 that a bicycle operator may signal from the right side of the 1-35 vehicle with hand and arm extended horizontally. 1-36 3. Stop or decrease speed. Hand and arm extended 1-37 downward. 1-38 The signals herein required shall be given either by means of 1-39 the hand-and-arm, or by a signal lamp or signal device approved by 1-40 the department. 1-41 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-42 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-43 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-44 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-45 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-46 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-47 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-48 * * * * * 1-49 Austin, 1-50 Texas 1-51 May 21, 1993 1-52 Hon. Bob Bullock 1-53 President of the Senate 1-54 Sir: 1-55 We, your Committee on State Affairs to which was referred H.B. 1-56 No. 630, have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed 1-57 to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do 1-58 pass and be printed. 1-59 Rosson, 1-60 Vice-Chairman 1-61 * * * * * 1-62 WITNESSES 1-63 FOR AGAINST ON 1-64 ___________________________________________________________________ 1-65 Name: Glenn Gadbois x 1-66 Representing: Texas Bicycle Coalition 1-67 City: Austin 1-68 -------------------------------------------------------------------