Bill not drafted by TLC or Senate E&E. Line and page numbers may not match official copy. By Rodriguez H.B. No. 1342 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to length and load provision of a motor vehicle that is 1-3 designed to be carried at the rear of a trailer. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 621.206, Transportation Code, is amended 1-6 to read as follows: 1-7 (c) The maximum length of load extension provision in this 1-8 section, shall not apply to a motor vehicle that is designed to be 1-9 carried at the rear of a trailer that performs the loading and 1-10 unloading of commodities of the trailer. The designed vehicle at 1-11 the rear of the trailer shall extend no farther than 7 feet from 1-12 the end of the trailer and shall meet all requirements of the 1-13 Federal Motor Carrier regulations in Section 393.86 of that Act and 1-14 also shall meet all requirements of state regulations in Section 1-15 393.100 of the Texas Transportation Code. 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.