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.