1-1 By: Bivins S.B. No. 472 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed February 6, 1995; February 8, 1995, 1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs; 1-4 March 6, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 11, 1-5 Nays 0; March 6, 1995, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to the waiver of the visual standards for a commercial 1-9 driver's license to operate a commercial motor vehicle only in this 1-10 state. 1-11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-12 SECTION 1. The Texas Commercial Driver's License Act 1-13 (Article 6687b-2, Revised Statutes) is amended by adding Section 1-14 12B to read as follows: 1-15 Sec. 12B. WAIVER OF VISUAL STANDARDS FOR INTRASTATE DRIVER. 1-16 The department by rule may provide for a waiver of the visual 1-17 standards for a commercial driver's license in Subpart E of 49 1-18 C.F.R. Part 391, if the person who is applying for or who has been 1-19 issued the license is a person who drives a commercial motor 1-20 vehicle only in this state. 1-21 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-24 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-25 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-26 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-27 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-28 * * * * *