By: Bettencourt  S.B. No. 2017
         (In the Senate - Filed March 6, 2025; March 17, 2025, read
  first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice;
  May 7, 2025, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 7,
  Nays 0; May 7, 2025, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to the creation of a criminal offense for operating a
  vehicle under certain circumstances causing a tire of the vehicle
  to spin, lose traction, or leave the surface of a highway.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter I, Chapter 545, Transportation Code,
  is amended by adding Section 545.4015 to read as follows:
         Sec. 545.4015.  OPERATION OF VEHICLE UNDER CERTAIN
  CIRCUMSTANCES CAUSING TIRE TO SPIN, LOSE TRACTION, OR LEAVE SURFACE
  OF ROADWAY; OFFENSE. (a)  An operator of a stationary vehicle may
  not break traction to spin a tire of the vehicle by pressing the
  accelerator and increasing the engine speed.
         (b)  An operator of a vehicle may not intentionally or
  knowingly accelerate the vehicle in a manner that causes any tire of
  the vehicle to:
               (1)  lose traction; or
               (2)  leave the surface of the highway.
         (c)  A person who violates this section commits an offense.
  An offense under this subsection is a Class C misdemeanor.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.
 
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