By Corte H.B. No. 30
75R387 JD-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the display of lights on vehicles on highways.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 547.302(a), Transportation Code, is
1-5 amended to read as follows:
1-6 (a) A vehicle shall display each lighted lamp and
1-7 illuminating device required by this chapter to be on the vehicle:
1-8 (1) at nighttime; [and]
1-9 (2) when light is insufficient or atmospheric
1-10 conditions are unfavorable so that a person or vehicle on the
1-11 highway is not clearly discernible at a distance of 500 [1,000]
1-12 feet ahead; and
1-13 (3) when, because of rain, sleet, snow, hail, or
1-14 unfavorable atmospheric conditions, the operator of the vehicle is
1-15 making use of the vehicle's windshield wipers.
1-16 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
1-17 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.