1-1 By: Pitts (Senate Sponsor - Cain) H.B. No. 2920
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 11, 1999;
1-3 May 12, 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 the operation of a motorcycle on a public street or
1-9 highway.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Section 547.801(d), Transportation Code, is
1-12 amended to read as follows:
1-13 (d) A motorcycle may not be operated at any time unless at
1-14 least one headlamp on the motorcycle is illuminated. This
1-15 subsection [requirement] does not apply to a motorcycle
1-16 [motorcycles] manufactured [in England] before the model year 1975.
1-17 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-18 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-22 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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