By:  Cain                                    S.B. No. 1296

         97S0713/1                           

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

                                       AN ACT

 1-1     relating to the regulation of motor vehicle size.

 1-2           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-3           SECTION 1.  Section 621.206, Transportation Code, is amended

 1-4     by adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:

 1-5           (c)  Subsection (a) does not apply to vehicles collecting

 1-6     garbage, rubbish, refuse, or recyclable materials which are

 1-7     equipped with front-end loading attachments and containers provided

 1-8     that the vehicle is actively engaged in the collection of garbage,

 1-9     rubbish, refuse, or recyclable materials.

1-10           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-11           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-12     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-13     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-14     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-15     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.