1-1     By:  Cain                                              S.B. No. 518
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed February 16, 1999; February 17, 1999,
 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources;
 1-4     April 6, 1999, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
 1-5     Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 5, Nays 0; April 6, 1999,
 1-6     sent to printer.)
 1-7     COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 518               By:  Armbrister
 1-8                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-9                                   AN ACT
1-10     relating to licensing requirements for the operation of certain
1-11     farm vehicles and trailers on the highways.
1-12           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-13           SECTION 1.  Subsection (c), Section 502.276, Transportation
1-14     Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-15           (c)  A vehicle that has [An owner who obtains] a
1-16     distinguishing license plate issued under Subsection (b) may be
1-17     operated [operate] temporarily on the highways if the vehicle is:
1-18                 (1)  a farm trailer or farm semitrailer with a gross
1-19     weight of more than 4,000 pounds but not more than 34,000 pounds
1-20     that is used exclusively to transport:
1-21                       (A)  [the owner's] seasonally harvested
1-22     agricultural products or [and] livestock from the place of
1-23     production to the place of processing, market, or storage; or
1-24                       (B)  farm supplies from the place of loading to
1-25     the farm;
1-26                 (2)  machinery used exclusively for the purpose of
1-27     drilling water wells; or
1-28                 (3)  construction machinery that is not designed to
1-29     transport persons or property on a public highway.
1-30           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-31           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-32     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-33     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-34     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-35     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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