By:  Harris, Chris                                     S.B. No. 630
       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.