By Longoria                                           H.B. No. 1958
       74R3222 JD-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the marking of school crossing zones.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  DEFINITION.  In this Act, "school crossing zone"
    1-5  has the meaning assigned by Section 20L, Uniform Act Regulating
    1-6  Traffic on Highways (Article 6701d, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes).
    1-7        SECTION 2.  ADDITIONAL PAVEMENT MARKINGS AT SCHOOL CROSSING
    1-8  ZONES.  In addition to any other sign, signal, marking, or device
    1-9  that is placed on, over, or adjacent to a street or highway to warn
   1-10  the driver of a vehicle on the street or highway of a school
   1-11  crossing zone, the public body or official having jurisdiction over
   1-12  the street or highway for the purpose of regulating, warning, or
   1-13  guiding traffic shall mark or require that the street or highway be
   1-14  marked in compliance with this Act.
   1-15        SECTION 3.  PAVEMENT MARKINGS.  The words "entering school
   1-16  zone" or "exiting school zone," as appropriate, shall be marked on
   1-17  the pavement 20 feet before the beginning of the school crossing
   1-18  zone and 20 feet before the end of the school crossing zone in red
   1-19  letters that are at least 18 inches in height.  The appropriate
   1-20  pavement marking shall extend across the width of the appropriate
   1-21  traffic lanes.
   1-22        SECTION 4.  EFFECTIVE DATE.  This Act takes effect September
   1-23  1, 1995.
   1-24        SECTION 5.  EMERGENCY.  The importance of this legislation
    2-1  and the crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-2  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-3  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-4  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.