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.