By: Rodriguez (Senate Sponsor - Watson) H.B. No. 885
(In the Senate - Received from the House March 31, 2011;
April 13, 2011, read first time and referred to Committee on
Transportation and Homeland Security; May 9, 2011, reported
favorably by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 9, 2011, sent
to printer.)
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the operation and movement of a vehicle when certain
traffic-control signals do not display an indication.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 544.007, Transportation Code, is amended
by amending Subsection (i) and adding Subsection (j) to read as
follows:
(i) An operator of a vehicle facing a traffic-control
signal, other than a freeway entrance ramp control signal or a
pedestrian hybrid beacon, that does not display an indication in
any of the signal heads shall stop as provided by Section 544.010 as
if the intersection had a stop sign.
(j) In this section:
(1) "Freeway entrance ramp control signal" means a
traffic-control signal that controls the flow of traffic entering a
freeway.
(2) "Pedestrian hybrid beacon" means a
pedestrian-controlled traffic-control signal that displays
different colored lights successively only when activated by a
pedestrian.
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, 2011.
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