By:  Cain                                    S.B. No. 1548

         97S0850/1                           

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

                                       AN ACT

 1-1     relating to vehicle or motor vehicle equipment requirements.

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

 1-3           SECTION 1.  Section 547.002, Transportation Code, is amended

 1-4     to read as follows:

 1-5           Sec. 547.002.  APPLICABILITY.  (a)  Unless specifically

 1-6     prohibited by this chapter, vehicle or motor vehicle equipment

 1-7     requirements shall comply with Federal Motor Vehicle Safety

 1-8     Standard 108 (49 C.F.R. Section 571.108) in effect at the time the

 1-9     vehicle or motor vehicle was manufactured or with the current

1-10     standard 108 requirements.

1-11           (b)  Unless a provision is specifically made applicable, this

1-12     chapter and the rules of the department adopted under this chapter

1-13     do not apply to:

1-14                 (1)  an implement of husbandry;

1-15                 (2)  road machinery;

1-16                 (3)  a road roller;

1-17                 (4)  a farm tractor; or

1-18                 (5)  a bicycle, a bicyclist, or bicycle equipment.

1-19           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-20           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-21     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-22     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-23     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

 2-1     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.