By Jones of Lubbock H.B. No. 2414
75R8836 DRH-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to vehicles for which an operator is required to have a
1-3 commercial driver's license.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 522.004(a), Transportation Code, is
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 (a) This chapter does not apply to:
1-8 (1) a vehicle that is controlled and operated by a
1-9 farmer and:
1-10 (A) used to transport agricultural products,
1-11 farm machinery, or farm supplies to or from a farm;
1-12 (B) used within 150 miles of the person's farm;
1-13 and
1-14 (C) not used in the operations of a common or
1-15 contract motor carrier;
1-16 (2) a fire-fighting or emergency vehicle necessary to
1-17 the preservation of life or property or the execution of emergency
1-18 governmental functions, whether operated by an employee of a
1-19 political subdivision or by a volunteer fire fighter;
1-20 (3) a military vehicle, when operated for military
1-21 purposes by military personnel, including:
1-22 (A) active duty military personnel; and
1-23 (B) members of the reserves and national guard
1-24 on active duty, including personnel on full-time national guard
2-1 duty, personnel engaged in part-time training, and national guard
2-2 military technicians;
2-3 (4) a recreational vehicle that is driven for personal
2-4 use; [or]
2-5 (5) a vehicle that is owned, leased, or controlled by
2-6 an air carrier, as defined by Section 21.155, and that is driven or
2-7 operated exclusively by an employee of the air carrier only on the
2-8 premises of an airport, as defined by Section 22.001, on service
2-9 roads to which the public does not have access; or
2-10 (6) a vehicle used exclusively to transport seed
2-11 cotton modules or cotton burrs.
2-12 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
2-13 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-14 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-15 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-16 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-17 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-18 passage, and it is so enacted.