By Kuempel H.B. No. 782
74R232 DWS-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to use of flashing warning lights and other warning
1-3 equipment on a school bus.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 105(b), Uniform Act Regulating Traffic on
1-6 Highways (Article 6701d, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), as amended
1-7 by Chapter 122, Acts of the 69th Legislature, Regular Session,
1-8 1985, is amended to read as follows:
1-9 (b) When a school bus is being stopped or is stopped on a
1-10 highway to permit school children to board or alight from the bus,
1-11 the bus driver shall activate all flashing warning signal lights or
1-12 other equipment on the bus designed to warn other drivers that the
1-13 bus is stopping to load or unload children. A school bus driver
1-14 shall activate that equipment if the school bus is located behind a
1-15 school bus that is stopping or stopped to load or unload children
1-16 and the driver's bus prevents drivers of vehicles on the highway
1-17 from seeing the loading or unloading bus. It shall be unlawful for
1-18 the driver of a school bus to fail to activate flashing warning
1-19 signal lights or other equipment as required by this subsection.
1-20 It shall also be unlawful to operate any flashing warning signal
1-21 light on any school bus except when the light is required by this
1-22 subsection to be activated <school bus is being stopped or is
1-23 stopped on a highway for the purpose of permitting school children
1-24 to board or alight from the school bus>.
2-1 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
2-2 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-3 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-4 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-5 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-6 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.