By: Ordaz Perez, Morales Shaw H.B. No. 3665

(Senate Sponsor - Blanco)

(In the Senate - Received from the House May 3, 2021; May 14, 2021, read first time and referred to Committee on Transportation; May 20, 2021, reported adversely, with favorable Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 20, 2021, sent to printer.) Click here to see the committee vote

COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 3665 By: Blanco

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to expanding the definition of bicycle to include devices with more than two wheels, including to accommodate modifications necessary for adaptive riding by persons with disabilities.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Section 541.201(2), Transportation Code, is amended to read as follows:

(2) "Bicycle" means a device, excluding a moped, that [a person may ride and that:

[(A)] is capable of being ridden solely using human power[;] and has either:

(A) [(B) has] two tandem wheels at least one of which is more than 14 inches in diameter;

(B) three wheels, two of which are in parallel, and at least one of the three wheels is more than 14 inches in diameter; or

(C) any number of wheels and adaptive technology that allows the device to be ridden by a person with a disability.

SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.

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