Bill Text: TX HB1631 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to the enforcement of commercial motor vehicle safety standards in certain municipalities and counties.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2015-05-12 - Referred to Transportation [HB1631 Detail]

Download: Texas-2015-HB1631-Introduced.html
  84R7050 JTS-D
 
  By: Phelan H.B. No. 1631
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the enforcement of commercial motor vehicle safety
  standards in certain municipalities and counties.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Sections 644.101(b) and (c), Transportation
  Code, are amended to read as follows:
         (b)  A police officer of any of the following municipalities
  is eligible to apply for certification under this section:
               (1)  a municipality with a population of 50,000 or
  more;
               (2)  a municipality with a population of 25,000 or more
  any part of which is located in a county with a population of
  500,000 or more;
               (3)  a municipality with a population of less than
  25,000:
                     (A)  any part of which is located in a county with
  a population of 3.3 million; and
                     (B)  that contains or is adjacent to an
  international port;
               (4)  a municipality with a population of at least
  34,000 that is located in a county that borders two or more states;
               (5)  a municipality any part of which is located in a
  county bordering the United Mexican States;
               (6)  a municipality with a population of less than
  5,000 that is located:
                     (A)  adjacent to a bay connected to the Gulf of
  Mexico; and
                     (B)  in a county adjacent to a county with a
  population greater than 3.3 million;
               (7)  a municipality that is located:
                     (A)  within 25 miles of an international port; and
                     (B)  in a county that does not contain a highway
  that is part of the national system of interstate and defense
  highways and is adjacent to a county with a population greater than
  3.3 million; [or]
               (8)  a municipality with a population of less than
  8,500 that:
                     (A)  is the county seat; and
                     (B)  contains a highway that is part of the
  national system of interstate and defense highways; or
               (9)  a municipality located in a county described by
  Subsection (c)(3).
         (c)  A sheriff or a deputy sheriff of any of the following
  counties [a county bordering the United Mexican States or of a
  county with a population of one million or more] is eligible to
  apply for certification under this section:
               (1)  a county bordering the United Mexican States;
               (2)  a county with a population of one million or more;
  or
               (3)  a county with a population of less than 100,000
  that borders the State of Louisiana and the Gulf Intracoastal
  Waterway.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.
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