1-1 By: Noriega (Senate Sponsor - Gallegos) H.B. No. 1744
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 9, 1999;
1-3 April 12, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Education; April 30, 1999, reported adversely, with favorable
1-5 Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0;
1-6 April 30, 1999, sent to printer.)
1-7 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 1744 By: Sibley
1-8 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-9 AN ACT
1-10 relating to additional equipment requirements for school buses.
1-11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12 SECTION 1. Section 547.701(b), Transportation Code, is
1-13 amended to read as follows:
1-14 (b) A school bus may be equipped with:
1-15 (1) rooftop warning lamps:
1-16 (A) that conform to and are placed on the bus in
1-17 accordance with specifications adopted under Section 34.002,
1-18 Education Code; and
1-19 [(B) that may be operated only during inclement
1-20 weather when the bus is stopping or is stopped to load or unload
1-21 students; and]
1-22 (B) that are operated under rules adopted by the
1-23 school district; and
1-24 (2) movable stop arms:
1-25 (A) that conform to regulations adopted under
1-26 Section 34.002, Education Code; and
1-27 (B) that may be operated only when the bus is
1-28 stopped to load or unload students.
1-29 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-30 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-31 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-32 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-33 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-34 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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