83R9945 AJZ-D
 
  By: Elkins H.B. No. 2420
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the authority of a local government to impose a civil
  penalty for certain failures to obey a traffic-control signal.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 707.002, Transportation Code, is amended
  to read as follows:
         Sec. 707.002.  AUTHORITY TO PROVIDE FOR CIVIL PENALTY. (a)  
  Except as provided by Subsection (b), the [The] governing body of a
  local authority by ordinance may implement a photographic traffic
  signal enforcement system and provide that the owner of a motor
  vehicle is liable to the local authority for a civil penalty if,
  while facing only a steady red signal displayed by an electrically
  operated traffic-control signal located in the local authority, the
  vehicle is operated in violation of the instructions of that
  traffic-control signal, as specified by Section 544.007(d).
         (b)  An ordinance implemented by a local authority under this
  chapter may not impose a civil penalty on the owner of a motor
  vehicle that is turning right at an intersection.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
  a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
  provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this
  Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
  Act takes effect September 1, 2013.