By: Deshotel (Senate Sponsor - Watson) H.B. No. 1279

(In the Senate - Received from the House April 16, 2007; April 17, 2007, read first time and referred to Committee on Transportation and Homeland Security; May 2, 2007, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 5, Nays 0; May 2, 2007, sent to printer.)

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.

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