By Talton H.B. No. 3366
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to lighting equipment on tow trucks.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 547.305(d), Transportation Code, is
1-5 amended to read as follows:
1-6 (d) A vehicle may be equipped with alternately flashing
1-7 lighting equipment described by Section 547.701 or 547.702 only if
1-8 the vehicle is:
1-9 (1) a school bus;
1-10 (2) an authorized emergency vehicle;
1-11 (3) a church bus that has the words "church bus"
1-12 printed on the front and rear of the bus so as to be clearly
1-13 discernable to other vehicle operators; [or]
1-14 (4) a tow truck while under the direction of a law
1-15 enforcement officer at the scene of an accident or while hooking up
1-16 to a disabled vehicle on a roadway; or
1-17 (5) a tow truck with a mounted light bar which has
1-18 turn signals and stop lamps in addition to those required by
1-19 Sections 547.322, 547.323, and 547.324, Transportation Code.
1-20 SECTION 2. The changes made in this Act take effect July 1,
1-21 1999, and apply to a cause of action that accrues on or after the
1-22 effective date. A cause of action that accrued before the
1-23 effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect before
1-24 that date, and the former law is continued in effect for this
2-1 purpose.
2-2 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-3 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-4 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-5 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-6 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-7 and that this Act take effect and be in force according to its
2-8 terms, and it is so enacted.