By Finnell                                      H.B. No. 2522

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the operation of a motorcycle on a public street or

 1-3     highway.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 547.801, Transportation Code, is amended

 1-6     by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:

 1-7           (d)  A motorcycle may not be operated at any time unless at

 1-8     least one headlamp on the motorcycle is illuminated.

 1-9           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-10           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-11     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-12     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-13     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-14     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.