85R21447 AAF-D
 
  By: Israel, Workman, Rodriguez of Travis, H.B. No. 1656
      et al.
 
  Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1656:
 
  By:  Morrison C.S.H.B. No. 1656
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the operation of a public transit motor bus by certain
  mass transit entities on an improved shoulder.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 545.058(c), Transportation Code, is
  amended to read as follows:
         (c)  A limitation in this section on driving on an improved
  shoulder does not apply to:
               (1)  an authorized emergency vehicle responding to a
  call;
               (2)  a police patrol; [or]
               (3)  a bicycle; or
               (4)  a public transit motor bus of a mass transit entity
  operating under Subtitle K, Title 6, if the motor bus is:
                     (A)  operating within the boundaries of a
  metropolitan planning organization in which:
                           (i)  at least five counties are located; and
                           (ii)  the two counties with the largest
  populations are part of a regional mobility authority governed by
  Chapter 370; and
                     (B)  bypassing traffic by operating on the
  shoulder of a highway designated by the Texas Department of
  Transportation that is under construction.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.