BILL ANALYSIS
Senate Research Center C.S.S.B. 798
Transportation & Homeland Security
Committee Report (Substituted)
AUTHOR'S / SPONSOR'S STATEMENT OF INTENT
When approaching an intersection controlled by a stop sign or a yield sign, drivers are required to yield the right-of-way to other cars already in the intersection or when it would be hazardous not to yield. Currently, the penalty for failing to properly yield the right-of-way is the same regardless of whether a collision results from the violation, and if so, without regard to the severity of the collision.
C.S.S.B. 798 enhances the punishment for failing to yield the right-of-way if, as a result of the violation, a collision causing injury to or death of a pedestrian occurs.
RULEMAKING AUTHORITY
SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS
SECTION 1. Amends Section 545.153, Transportation Code, by adding Subsection (e), to set forth specific fines for a collision causing injury to or the death of a pedestrian resulting from the commission of an offense under this section (Vehicle Entering Stop or Yield Intersection).
SECTION 2. Makes application of this Act prospective.
SECTION 3. Effective date: September 1, 2007.