By: Perez (Senate Sponsor - Alvarado) H.B. No. 3558
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 8, 2023;
May 9, 2023, read first time and referred to Committee on
Transportation; May 17, 2023, reported favorably by the following
vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 17, 2023, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the operation of a motor vehicle at an intersection with
a stop sign.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 544.010(c), Transportation Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(c) An operator required to stop by this section shall stop
at a clearly marked stop line [before entering the crosswalk on the
near side of the intersection]. In the absence of a clearly marked
stop line [crosswalk], the operator shall stop before entering the
crosswalk on the near side of the intersection [at a clearly marked
stop line]. In the absence of a clearly marked stop line or
crosswalk, the operator shall stop at the place nearest the
intersecting roadway where the operator has a view of approaching
traffic on the intersecting roadway.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.
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