By Wise H.B. No. 285
76R94 KKA-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to a requirement that school buses be equipped with mobile
1-3 telephones.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 547.701(a), Transportation Code, is
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 (a) A school bus shall be equipped with:
1-8 (1) a convex mirror or other device that reflects to
1-9 the school bus operator a clear view of the area immediately in
1-10 front of the vehicle that would otherwise be hidden from view;
1-11 [and]
1-12 (2) signal lamps that:
1-13 (A) are mounted as high and as widely spaced
1-14 laterally as practicable;
1-15 (B) display four alternately flashing red
1-16 lights, two located on the front at the same level and two located
1-17 on the rear at the same level; and
1-18 (C) emit a light visible at a distance of 500
1-19 feet in normal sunlight; and
1-20 (3) a mobile telephone that may be used in an
1-21 emergency.
1-22 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-23 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-1 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-2 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-3 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.