1-1     By:  Alexander (Senate Sponsor - Cain)                H.B. No. 1492
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House April 19, 1999;
 1-3     April 20, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on State
 1-4     Affairs; May 12, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:
 1-5     Yeas 8, Nays 1; May 12, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to the classification of a motor-driven cycle or moped and
 1-9     to a driver's license issued for the operation of certain
1-10     motorcycles.
1-11           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12           SECTION 1.  Sections 521.224(b) and (e), Transportation Code,
1-13     are amended to read as follows:
1-14           (b)  The department may issue a special restricted Class M
1-15     license that authorizes the holder to operate only a motorcycle
1-16     that has not more than a 250 [125] cubic centimeter piston
1-17     displacement.
1-18           (e)  On the 16th birthday of a holder of a special restricted
1-19     Class M license, the department shall remove the 250 [125] cubic
1-20     centimeter  restriction from the license without completion by the
1-21     holder of an additional motorcycle operator training course.
1-22            SECTION 2.  Section 521.225, Transportation Code, is amended
1-23     by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
1-24           (d)  The department shall certify whether a vehicle alleged
1-25     to be a moped is a moped.  The department shall:
1-26                 (1)  by rule establish the procedure for determining
1-27     whether a vehicle is a moped;
1-28                 (2)  compile a list of mopeds certified by the
1-29     department; and
1-30                 (3)  make the list available to the public on request.
1-31           SECTION 3.  Section 541.201(10), Transportation Code, is
1-32     amended to read as follows:
1-33                 (10)  "Motor-driven cycle" means a motorcycle equipped
1-34     with a motor that has an engine piston displacement of 250 [125]
1-35     cubic centimeters or less.
1-36           SECTION 4.  Section 521.226, Transportation Code, is
1-37     repealed.
1-38           SECTION 5.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-39           SECTION 6.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-40     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-41     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-42     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-43     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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