By: Bivins S.B. No. 472 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to the waiver of the visual standards for a commercial 1-2 driver's license to operate a commercial motor vehicle only in this 1-3 state. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. The Texas Commercial Driver's License Act 1-6 (Article 6687b-2, Revised Statutes) is amended by adding Section 1-7 12B to read as follows: 1-8 Sec. 12B. WAIVER OF VISUAL STANDARDS FOR INTRASTATE DRIVER. 1-9 The department by rule may provide for a waiver of the visual 1-10 standards for a commercial driver's license in Subpart E of 49 1-11 C.F.R. Part 391, if the person who is applying for or who has been 1-12 issued the license is a person who drives a commercial motor 1-13 vehicle only in this state. 1-14 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-15 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-16 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-17 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-18 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-19 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-20 passage, and it is so enacted.