Bill Text: TX HB993 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the closure of a road or highway by certain firefighters.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective on 9/1/11 [HB993 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB993-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the closure of a road or highway by certain firefighters.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective on 9/1/11 [HB993 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB993-Comm_Sub.html
By: Rodriguez, Martinez (Senate Sponsor - Watson) | H.B. No. 993 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House March 31, 2011; | ||
April 13, 2011, read first time and referred to Committee on | ||
Transportation and Homeland Security; May 9, 2011, reported | ||
favorably by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 9, 2011, | ||
sent to printer.) |
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relating to the closure of a road or highway by certain | ||
firefighters. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 546, Transportation Code, | ||
is amended by adding Section 546.007 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 546.007. CLOSURE OF ROAD OR HIGHWAY BY FIREFIGHTER. | ||
(a) This section applies only to a firefighter who is employed by | ||
or a member of: | ||
(1) a fire department operated by an emergency | ||
services district; | ||
(2) a volunteer fire department; or | ||
(3) a fire department of a general-law municipality. | ||
(b) A firefighter, when performing the firefighter's | ||
official duties, may close one or more lanes of a road or highway to | ||
protect the safety of persons or property. | ||
(c) The closure shall be limited to the affected lane or | ||
lanes and one additional lane unless the safety of emergency | ||
personnel operating on the road or highway requires more lanes to be | ||
closed. | ||
(d) In making a closure under this section, the firefighter | ||
shall deploy one or more authorized emergency vehicles with audible | ||
and visual signals that meet the requirements of Sections 547.305 | ||
and 547.702. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011. | ||
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