85R3364 AAF-D
 
  By: Israel H.B. No. 1656
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the operation of a public transit motor bus by certain
  mass transit entities on an improved shoulder.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 545.058(c), Transportation Code, is
  amended to read as follows:
         (c)  A limitation in this section on driving on an improved
  shoulder does not apply to:
               (1)  an authorized emergency vehicle responding to a
  call;
               (2)  a police patrol; [or]
               (3)  a bicycle; or
               (4)  a public transit motor bus of a mass transit entity
  operating under Subtitle K, Title 6, if the motor bus is operating:
                     (A)  within the boundaries of a metropolitan
  planning organization in which:
                           (i)  at least five counties are located; and
                           (ii)  the two counties with the largest
  populations are part of a regional mobility authority governed by
  Chapter 370; and
                     (B)  on the shoulder of a highway designated by
  the Texas Department of Transportation.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.