75R8735 DRH-F By Hawley H.B. No. 2138 Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2138: By Siebert C.S.H.B. No. 2138 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 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.