By: Goodman H.B. No. 1358
73R3462 JD-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the issuance of a commercial driver's license.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 3(7), Texas Commercial Driver's License
1-5 Act (Article 6687b-2, Revised Statutes), is amended to read as
1-6 follows:
1-7 (7) "Commercial motor vehicle" does not include:
1-8 (A) a vehicle that is controlled and operated by
1-9 a farmer; and used to transport agricultural products, farm
1-10 machinery, or farm supplies to or from a farm; and not used in the
1-11 operations of a common or contract motor carrier; and used within
1-12 150 miles of the person's farm;
1-13 (B) a fire-fighting or emergency vehicle
1-14 necessary to the preservation of life or property or the execution
1-15 of emergency governmental functions, whether operated by an
1-16 employee of a political subdivision or by a volunteer fire fighter;
1-17 (C) a military vehicle, when operated for
1-18 military purposes by military personnel, including any active duty
1-19 military personnel, members of the reserves and national guard on
1-20 active duty, including personnel on full-time national guard duty,
1-21 personnel on part-time training, and national guard military
1-22 technicians; <or>
1-23 (D) a recreational vehicle that is driven for
1-24 personal use; or
2-1 (E) a vehicle that is owned, leased, or
2-2 controlled by an air carrier, as defined by Section 1(e), Chapter
2-3 344, Acts of the 49th Legislature, Regular Session, 1945 (Article
2-4 46c-1, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), and that is driven or
2-5 operated exclusively by an employee of the air carrier only on the
2-6 premises of an airport, as defined by Section 1(a), Municipal
2-7 Airports Act (Article 46d-1, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes).
2-8 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
2-9 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-10 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-11 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-12 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-13 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-14 passage, and it is so enacted.