1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the standards for certain equipment on vehicles.

 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Subchapter E, Chapter 547, Transportation Code,

 1-5     is amended by adding Section 547.3215 to read as follows:

 1-6           Sec. 547.3215.  USE OF FEDERAL STANDARD.  Unless specifically

 1-7     prohibited by this chapter, lighting, reflective devices, and

 1-8     associated equipment on a vehicle or motor vehicle must comply

 1-9     with:

1-10                 (1)  the current federal standards in 49 C.F.R. Section

1-11     571.108; or

1-12                 (2)  the federal standards in that section in effect,

1-13     if any, at the time the vehicle or motor vehicle was manufactured.

1-14           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-15           SECTION 3.  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.

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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House

               I certify that H.B. No. 2138 was passed by the House on April

         18, 1997, by a non-record vote.

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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House

               I certify that H.B. No. 2138 was passed by the Senate on May

         12, 1997, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0.

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                                                 Secretary of the Senate

         APPROVED:  _____________________

                            Date

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                          Governor