Bill not drafted by TLC or Senate E&E. Line and page numbers may not match official copy. By: Madla S.B. No. 977 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to the maximum extended length of certain loads carried on 1-2 trailers. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 621, Transportation Code, 1-5 is amended by adding Section 621.2061 to read as follows: 1-6 Sec. 621.2061. EXCEPTION TO MAXIMUM EXTENDED LENGTH OF LOAD: 1-7 CERTAIN MOTOR VEHICLES. Notwithstanding Section 621.206, a trailer 1-8 may carry a load that extends more than four feet beyond the rear 1-9 of the trailer if the load consists of a motor vehicle that: 1-10 (1) is designed and intended to be carried at the rear 1-11 of the trailer; 1-12 (2) is used or intended to be used to load or unload a 1-13 commodity on or off the trailer; 1-14 (3) does not extend more than seven feet beyond the 1-15 rear of the trailer; and 1-16 (4) complies with each applicable federal motor 1-17 carrier safety regulation in 49 C.F.R. 393.86. 1-18 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997. 1-19 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-23 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.