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| 2 | + | (In the Senate - Filed March 10, 2025; March 24, 2025, read |
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| 3 | + | first time and referred to Committee on Transportation; |
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| 4 | + | April 10, 2025, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 8, |
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| 5 | + | Nays 0; April 10, 2025, sent to printer.) |
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| 6 | + | Click here to see the committee vote |
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| 6 | 9 | | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED |
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| 7 | 10 | | AN ACT |
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| 8 | 11 | | relating to the operation of vehicles at railroad grade crossings; |
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| 9 | 12 | | increasing a criminal penalty. |
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| 10 | 13 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 11 | 14 | | SECTION 1. Section 545.251(f), Transportation Code, is |
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| 12 | 15 | | amended to read as follows: |
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| 13 | 16 | | (f) An offense under this section is punishable by a fine of |
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| 14 | 17 | | not less than $50 or more than $200, except that the offense is |
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| 15 | 18 | | punishable by a fine of not less than $100 or more than $400 if it is |
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| 16 | 19 | | shown on the trial of the offense that the operator disregarded a |
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| 17 | 20 | | warning given by a flagger under Subsection (a)(2). |
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| 18 | 21 | | SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only |
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| 19 | 22 | | to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this Act. |
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| 20 | 23 | | An offense committed before the effective date of this Act is |
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| 21 | 24 | | governed by the law in effect on the date the offense was committed, |
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| 22 | 25 | | and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. For |
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| 23 | 26 | | purposes of this section, an offense was committed before the |
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| 24 | 27 | | effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurred |
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| 25 | 28 | | before that date. |
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| 26 | 29 | | SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. |
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