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  By: Hancock  S.B. No. 545
         (In the Senate - Filed February 13, 2013; February 20, 2013,
  read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice;
  March 27, 2013, reported favorably; April 3, 2013, recommitted to
  Committee on Health and Human Services; April  4, 2013, reported
  favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 7, Nays 0; April 4, 2013,
  sent to printer.)
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to the peace officers authorized to operate an authorized
  emergency service vehicle used to conduct a police escort.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subsection (a), Section 546.002, Transportation
  Code, is amended to read as follows:
         (a)  In this section, "police escort" means facilitating the
  movement of a funeral, oversized or hazardous load, or other
  traffic disruption for public safety purposes by a peace officer
  described by Articles 2.12(1)-(4), (8), (12), and (22), Code of
  Criminal Procedure.
         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.
 
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