By Alexander H.B. No. 1830
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the use of certain lighting equipment on motor
1-3 vehicles.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Sections 124(c) and (d), Uniform Act Regulating
1-6 Traffic on Highways (Article 6701d, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes),
1-7 are amended to read as follows:
1-8 (c) An <A police vehicle when used as an> authorized
1-9 emergency vehicle may <but need not> be equipped with one or more
1-10 rotating or alternately flashing red or blue lights <specified
1-11 herein>.
1-12 (d) The rotating or alternately flashing red lighting
1-13 described in Subsections (b) and (c) of this section shall not be
1-14 used on any vehicle other than a school bus, a church bus, or an
1-15 authorized emergency vehicle. A<, or a> tow truck while under the
1-16 direction of a law enforcement officer at the scene of an accident
1-17 or while hooking up to a disabled vehicle in the roadway may use
1-18 rotating or alternately flashing amber or white lighting. Rotating
1-19 or alternately flashing blue lighting may not be used on a vehicle
1-20 that is not an authorized emergency vehicle.
1-21 SECTION 2. Section 131(c), Uniform Act Regulating Traffic on
1-22 Highways (Article 6701d, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended
1-23 to read as follows:
2-1 (c) Except as authorized or required in Sections 105, 122,
2-2 124, 125 and this section, a person may not operate a motor vehicle
2-3 that displays <equipped with> a beacon, flashing, rotating, or
2-4 alternating light that is red, white, or blue in color. This
2-5 subsection does not prohibit the use of running lights, headlights,
2-6 taillights, backup lights, or turn signal lights, in a manner
2-7 authorized by law.
2-8 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
2-9 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
2-10 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-11 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-12 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-13 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
2-14 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1
2-15 Amend H.B. 1830 as follows:
2-16 (1) On page 1, line 10, strike "or blue" and substitute ",
2-17 blue, amber or white".
2-18 (2) On page 1, line 18 strike "or white".
2-19 Siebert