BILL ANALYSIS

Senate Research Center	H.B. 4087
87R7013 JTS-D	By: Burns (Birdwell)
	Transportation
	5/18/2021
	Engrossed

AUTHOR'S / SPONSOR'S STATEMENT OF INTENT

Population and industrial-sector growth in the City of Cleburne has led to a recent and dramatic increase in commercial motor vehicle traffic on the city's roadways. Accordingly, there is now an increased demand for enforcing commercial motor vehicle safety standards. Interested parties argue that increasing the number of properly trained law enforcement officers who are able to enforce these standards in Cleburne will result in safer roadways for all traffic. H.B. 4078 seeks to address this issue by making Cleburne Police Department officers eligible to apply for certification to enforce commercial motor vehicle safety standards.

H.B. 4087 amends current law relating to the enforcement of commercial motor vehicle safety standards in certain municipalities.

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

This bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, institution, or agency.

SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS

SECTION 1. Reenacts  Section 644.101(b), Transportation Code, as reenacted and amended by Chapters 102 (S.B. 636), 163 (H.B. 695), 169 (H.B. 917), and 467 (H.B. 4170), Acts of the 86th Legislature, Regular Session, 2019, and amends it, as follows:

(b)  Provides that a police officer of any of the following municipalities is eligible to apply for certification under this section:

����������� (1) - (10) makes no changes to these subdivisions;

(11) - (15) makes nonsubstantive changes to these subdivisions; or

(16)  a municipality with a population of more than 25,000 and less than 50,000 that:

(A)  is located in a county with a population of more than 150,000 and less than 200,000; and

(B)  contains a toll project of a regional tollway authority under Chapter 366 (Regional Tollway Authorities) and a highway that is part of the national system of interstate and defense highways.

SECTION 2.  Provides that this Act, to the extent of any conflict, prevails over another Act of the 87th Legislature, Regular Session, 2021, relating to nonsubstantive additions to and corrections in enacted codes.

SECTION 3.  Effective date: September 1, 2021.