1-1 By: Hupp (Senate Sponsor - Haywood) H.B. No. 2541
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 26, 1999;
1-3 April 27, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on State
1-4 Affairs; May 14, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:
1-5 Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 14, 1999, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to traffic offenses occurring in a construction or
1-9 maintenance work zone.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Section 472.022(e)(2), Transportation Code, is
1-12 amended to read as follows:
1-13 (2) "Construction or maintenance work zone" means a
1-14 portion of a highway or street:
1-15 (A) where highway construction or maintenance is
1-16 being undertaken, other than mobile operations as defined by the
1-17 Texas Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices; and
1-18 (B) that is marked by [one or more] signs
1-19 indicating that it is a construction or maintenance work zone and
1-20 indicating where the zone begins and ends.
1-21 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-22 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-23 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-24 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-25 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-26 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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