BILL ANALYSIS

C.S.H.B. 1010

By: Bonnen

Transportation

Committee Report (Substituted)

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE

There are certain municipalities whose police officers are eligible to apply for certification to enforce commercial motor vehicle safety standards.  Interested parties note, however, that there are other municipalities of certain populations and certain locations whose police offers are not eligible to apply for this certification.  C.S.H.B. 1010 seeks to address this issue by changing statutory provisions relating to the enforcement of commercial motor vehicle safety standards in certain municipalities.

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution.

ANALYSIS

C.S.H.B. 1010 amends the Transportation Code to expand the municipalities whose police officers are eligible to apply for certification to enforce commercial motor vehicle safety standards to include a municipality that is located within 25 miles of an international port and in a county that does not contain a highway that is part of the national system of interstate and defense highways and is adjacent to a county with a population greater than 3.3 million and to include a municipality with a population of less than 8,500 that is the county seat and contains a highway that is part of the national system of interstate and defense highways. 

EFFECTIVE DATE

September 1, 2011.

COMPARISON OF ORIGINAL AND SUBSTITUTE

C.S.H.B. 1010 contains a provision not in the original extending the substitute's expansion of eligibility to a municipality with a population of less than 8,500 that is the county seat and contains a highway that is part of the national system of interstate and defense highways.