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.