1-1  By:  Pitts (Senate Sponsor - Armbrister)              H.B. No. 2754
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House May 8, 1995;
    1-3  May 9, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on State
    1-4  Affairs; May 16, 1995, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
    1-5  Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 10, Nays 0; May 16, 1995,
    1-6  sent to printer.)
    1-7  COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 2754                By:  Gallegos
    1-8                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-9                                AN ACT
   1-10  relating to transportation of portable building units.
   1-11        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-12        SECTION 1.  Article 6701a-2, Revised Statutes, is amended by
   1-13  adding Sections H, I, and J to read as follows:
   1-14        H.(a)  A portable building unit that exceeds 16 feet, but is
   1-15  not more than 18 feet, in width must have one escort flag vehicle
   1-16  that must:
   1-17              (1)  precede the portable building unit on a two-lane
   1-18  roadway; or
   1-19              (2)  follow the portable building unit on a roadway of
   1-20  four or more lanes.
   1-21        (b)  A portable building unit that exceeds 18 feet in width
   1-22  must be preceded and followed by escort flag vehicles while moving
   1-23  over a highway, road, or street in this state.
   1-24        (c)  An escort flag vehicle must have:
   1-25              (1)  on top of the vehicle and visible from the front
   1-26  and rear:
   1-27                    (A)  two lights flashing simultaneously; or
   1-28                    (B)  one rotating amber beacon of not less than
   1-29  eight inches;
   1-30              (2)  four red 16-inch square flags mounted on the four
   1-31  corners of the vehicle so that one flag is on each corner; and
   1-32              (3)  signs that:
   1-33                    (A)  are mounted on the front and rear of the
   1-34  vehicle; and
   1-35                    (B)  have a yellow background and black letters
   1-36  at least eight inches high stating "wide load."
   1-37        I.  This article applies to transportation of a portable
   1-38  building unit regardless of whether it is transported as an
   1-39  assembled or partially assembled portable building or as
   1-40  unassembled modular building components.
   1-41        J.  In this article, "portable building unit" means
   1-42  prefabricated structural and other modular components that
   1-43  constitute a complete portable building bearing a single distinct
   1-44  serial number when assembled.
   1-45        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-46        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-47  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-48  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-49  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-50  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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