80R11082 JD-D
 
  By: Deshotel H.B. No. 1279
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the requirement that a detector for certain
traffic-actuated electric traffic-control devices register the
presence of a motorcycle.
       BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
       SECTION 1.  Chapter 544, Transportation Code, is amended by
adding Section 544.0075 to read as follows:
       Sec. 544.0075.  CERTAIN TRAFFIC-ACTUATED ELECTRIC
TRAFFIC-CONTROL SIGNALS.  (a)  This section applies only to a
traffic-actuated electric traffic-control signal that consists of
a traffic-control signal for which the intervals vary according to
the demands of vehicular traffic as registered by a detector and
that is installed at an intersection.
       (b)  In addition to any other type of vehicle the presence of
which the detector for the traffic-actuated electric
traffic-control signal may register, the detector for a
traffic-actuated electric traffic-control device to which this
section applies must be capable of registering the presence of a
motorcycle.
       SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2007.