Bill Text: TX HB1282 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced

Texas House Bill 1282

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to the enforcement of the prohibition on passing a school bus using images and video from a school bus infraction detection system.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-11-13 - Filed [HB1282 Detail]

Download: Texas-2025-HB1282-Introduced.html

	89R615 CXP-F

	By: Raymond	H.B. No. 1282



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to the enforcement of the prohibition on passing a school
	bus using images and video from a school bus infraction detection
	system.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 707.001, Transportation Code, is amended
	by adding Subdivision (4-a) to read as follows:
	(4-a) "School bus infraction detection system" means a
	camera system affixed to a school bus with two or more camera
	sensors or computers that produce a recorded video and two or more
	film or digital photographic still images for the purpose of
	detecting violations described by Section 545.066.
	SECTION 2. Section 707.020, Transportation Code, is amended
	by amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (a-1) to read as
	follows:
	(a) Notwithstanding any other law and except as provided by
	Subsection (a-1), a local authority may not implement or operate a
	photographic traffic signal enforcement system with respect to a
	highway or street under the jurisdiction of the authority.
	(a-1) This section does not apply to a school bus infraction
	detection system installed and operated by a school district or
	open-enrollment charter school in this state.
	SECTION 3. Section 707.021, Transportation Code, is amended
	to read as follows:
	Sec. 707.021. USE OF EVIDENCE FROM PHOTOGRAPHIC TRAFFIC
	SIGNAL ENFORCEMENT SYSTEM PROHIBITED. (a) Notwithstanding any
	other law and except as provided by Subsection (b), a local
	authority may not issue a civil or criminal charge or citation for
	an offense or violation based on a recorded image produced by a
	photographic traffic signal enforcement system.
	(b) This section does not apply to the issuance by a
	municipality, county, school district, or open-enrollment charter
	school of a civil or criminal charge or citation, as applicable, for
	a violation described by Section 545.066 based on the use of
	recorded image-based evidence collected from a school bus
	infraction detection system installed and operated by a school
	district or open-enrollment charter school in this state.
	SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.