By Jackson                                            H.B. No. 1212
       74R5488 DWS-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the safe operation of motor carriers on highways.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 139(f), 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        (f)  Any peace officer of any city having a population of
    1-8  25,000 or more all or part of which is located in a county with a
    1-9  population of 2.4  million <100,000>  or more, certified for this
   1-10  purpose by the Director, may detain any motor vehicle on any street
   1-11  or highway within such city subject to this section or to any
   1-12  regulation adopted in accordance with this section.  Such
   1-13  certification procedures including the proper training of said
   1-14  officers shall be determined by the Department.  The Department by
   1-15  rule may establish uniform standards for enforcement of this
   1-16  section and regulations adopted in accordance with this section by
   1-17  participating cities.  The Department by rule shall establish
   1-18  reasonable fees sufficient to recover from a city the costs of
   1-19  training and certifying peace officers of the city under this
   1-20  section.  A city engaging in enforcement measures under this
   1-21  section shall pay all costs relating to those measures and shall
   1-22  not be considered a party to any federal grant agreement, or a
   1-23  grantee under any federal grant to the Department, related to this
   1-24  section.  Enforcement measures conducted by a city under this
    2-1  subsection shall not be considered enforcement measures of the
    2-2  Department for purposes of maintaining levels of effort required
    2-3  pursuant to any federal grant.
    2-4        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
    2-5        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-6  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-7  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-8  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-9  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.