82R525 ALL-D
 
  By: Brown H.B. No. 110
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the use of safety guards or flaps on certain buses.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 547.606, Transportation Code, is amended
  by amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (a-1) to read as
  follows:
         (a)  This section applies only to:
               (1)  a school bus, a school activity bus, or a
  multifunctional school activity bus operating outside the
  boundaries of a municipality; or
               (2)  a [A] road tractor, truck, trailer, truck-tractor
  in combination with a semitrailer, or semitrailer in combination
  with a towing vehicle that has at least four tires on the rearmost
  axle of the vehicle or the rearmost vehicle in the combination.
         (a-1)  A vehicle described by Subsection (a) shall be
  equipped with safety guards or flaps that:
               (1)  are of a type prescribed by the department; and
               (2)  are located and suspended behind the rearmost
  wheels of the vehicle or the rearmost vehicle in the combination
  within eight inches of the surface of the highway.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.