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.