By Gray                                                H.B. No. 186

      75R2056 JD-D                           

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the requirement that the person in charge of a railroad

 1-3     locomotive sound a whistle, air whistle, or air siren and ring a

 1-4     bell at the intersection of the railway and certain roads and

 1-5     streets.

 1-6           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-7           SECTION 1.  Section 471.006(b), Tansportation Code, is

 1-8     amended to read as follows:

 1-9           (b)  The engineer in charge of the locomotive shall ring the

1-10     bell and blow the whistle or siren at least one-quarter mile from

1-11     the place where the railroad crosses a [public] road or street,

1-12     including a private road or street with unrestricted access.  The

1-13     engineer shall continue to ring the bell until the locomotive has

1-14     crossed the road or street or has stopped.

1-15           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-16     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-17     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-18     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-19     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.