1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to additional equipment requirements for school buses.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 547.701(b), Transportation Code, is
 1-5     amended to read as follows:
 1-6           (b)  A school bus may be equipped with:
 1-7                 (1)  rooftop warning lamps:
 1-8                       (A)  that conform to and are placed on the bus in
 1-9     accordance with specifications adopted under Section 34.002,
1-10     Education Code; and
1-11                       (B)  that are operated under rules adopted by the
1-12     school district; and [that may be operated only during inclement
1-13     weather when the bus is stopping or is stopped to load or unload
1-14     students; and]
1-15                 (2)  movable stop arms:
1-16                       (A)  that conform to regulations adopted under
1-17     Section 34.002, Education Code; and
1-18                       (B)  that may be operated only when the bus is
1-19     stopped to load or unload students.
1-20           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-21           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-22     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-23     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-24     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-1     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House
               I certify that H.B. No. 1744 was passed by the House on April
         8, 1999, by a non-record vote; and that the House concurred in
         Senate amendments to H.B. No. 1744 on May 12, 1999, by a non-record
         vote.
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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House
               I certify that H.B. No. 1744 was passed by the Senate, with
         amendments, on May 10, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 30, Nays
         0.
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                                                 Secretary of the Senate
         APPROVED:  _____________________
                            Date
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                          Governor