1-1 By: Hawley (Senate Sponsor - Cain) H.B. No. 2138 1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 21, 1997; 1-3 April 23, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on 1-4 International Relations, Trade, and Technology; May 1, 1997, 1-5 reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0; 1-6 May 1, 1997, sent to printer.) 1-7 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-8 AN ACT 1-9 relating to the standards for certain equipment on vehicles. 1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-11 SECTION 1. Subchapter E, Chapter 547, Transportation Code, 1-12 is amended by adding Section 547.3215 to read as follows: 1-13 Sec. 547.3215. USE OF FEDERAL STANDARD. Unless specifically 1-14 prohibited by this chapter, lighting, reflective devices, and 1-15 associated equipment on a vehicle or motor vehicle must comply 1-16 with: 1-17 (1) the current federal standards in 49 C.F.R. Section 1-18 571.108; or 1-19 (2) the federal standards in that section in effect, 1-20 if any, at the time the vehicle or motor vehicle was manufactured. 1-21 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997. 1-22 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-23 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-24 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-25 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-26 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended. 1-27 * * * * *