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Old Sep 1, 2011 | 07:52 AM
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Where can you find the full list of 700?
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Old Sep 1, 2011 | 05:10 PM
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I heard today that the speed limit went up to 75, day or night. Haven't validated that yet
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Old Sep 1, 2011 | 05:59 PM
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http://www.legis.state.tx.us/Reports...ID=signedbygov
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House Bill 1043 amends the Penal Code to create the offense of cockfighting. The bill makes it a state jail felony to knowingly cause a **** to fight with another **** or to participate in the earnings of a cockfight and makes it a Class A misdemeanor to knowingly use or permit another to use certain property for cockfighting, own or train a **** with the intent that it be used in a cockfighting exhibition, or manufacture, buy, sell, barter, exchange, possess, advertise, or otherwise offer a certain sharp implement intended for use in cockfighting. The bill makes it a Class C misdemeanor to knowingly attend as a spectator an exhibition of cockfighting and enhances the penalty for a subsequent conviction of such an offense to a Class A misdemeanor. The bill establishes an affirmative defense to prosecution for a cockfighting offense and provides an exception to the application of the offense involving attending a cockfighting exhibition as a spectator for a person 15 years of age or younger.

There go all my dreams and aspirations.....
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Legislative Session: 82(R)


House Bill 1353
House Author: Elkins et al.

Effective: 9-1-11
Senate Sponsor: Williams




House Bill 1353 amends Transportation Code provisions relating to speeds that are lawful unless a special hazard exists that requires a slower speed. The bill makes 70 miles per hour a lawful speed on a highway numbered by Texas or the United States outside an urban district and makes 60 mph a lawful speed on a highway that is outside an urban district and not a highway numbered by Texas or the United States. The bill makes an exception for a school bus, requiring the school bus to comply with certain prescribed speeds. The bill removes speeds that are lawful for certain vehicles in nighttime, for certain trucks, and for vehicles outside an urban district for which a speed limit is not otherwise specified. The bill requires an entity that establishes or alters a speed limit on certain highways under authority granted by law to establish the same speed limit for daytime and nighttime and, among other provisions, increases to 75 mph the maximum speed that the entities may set, with a certain exception.


Here you go
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Old Sep 1, 2011 | 09:44 PM
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Originally Posted by LS1LUNATIC
Legislative Session: 82(R)


House Bill 1353
House Author: Elkins et al.

Effective: 9-1-11
Senate Sponsor: Williams




House Bill 1353 amends Transportation Code provisions relating to speeds that are lawful unless a special hazard exists that requires a slower speed. The bill makes 70 miles per hour a lawful speed on a highway numbered by Texas or the United States outside an urban district and makes 60 mph a lawful speed on a highway that is outside an urban district and not a highway numbered by Texas or the United States. The bill makes an exception for a school bus, requiring the school bus to comply with certain prescribed speeds. The bill removes speeds that are lawful for certain vehicles in nighttime, for certain trucks, and for vehicles outside an urban district for which a speed limit is not otherwise specified. The bill requires an entity that establishes or alters a speed limit on certain highways under authority granted by law to establish the same speed limit for daytime and nighttime and, among other provisions, increases to 75 mph the maximum speed that the entities may set, with a certain exception.


Here you go
Still have to wait for them to get around to doing their research on which ones to change the limit on, and to install new speed limit signs though.
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Old Sep 1, 2011 | 10:07 PM
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HB716 sounds awesome. taking hogs from a helicopter. seen videos of it and i wanna try it out
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Wtf......


HB 114 Author: McClendon | Alvarado | King, Susan
Sponsor: Zaffirini
Last Action: 05/30/2011 E Effective on 9/1/11
Caption: Relating to designating April as Minority Cancer Awareness Month.
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Originally Posted by 1INSANEGTO
Wtf......


HB 114 Author: McClendon | Alvarado | King, Susan
Sponsor: Zaffirini
Last Action: 05/30/2011 E Effective on 9/1/11
Caption: Relating to designating April as Minority Cancer Awareness Month.
Cause cancer is worse for minorities????? This is disturbing.
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Originally Posted by 1INSANEGTO
Wtf......


HB 114 Author: McClendon | Alvarado | King, Susan
Sponsor: Zaffirini
Last Action: 05/30/2011 E Effective on 9/1/11
Caption: Relating to designating April as Minority Cancer Awareness Month.
Oh boy...
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Originally Posted by 94fixerTA
Cause cancer is worse for minorities????? This is disturbing.
Right.
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Old Sep 2, 2011 | 08:11 AM
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They have already done testing around Abilene and talking about surtain roads going to 75 but if you go out towards ozona there speed limit has been 80 for awhile.
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Not sure what this one is about....


HB 890 Author: Howard, Charlie | Smith, Todd
Sponsor: Davis
Last Action: 06/17/2011 E Effective on 9/1/11
Caption: Relating to certain custom vehicles and street rods.
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Old Sep 2, 2011 | 12:07 PM
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Originally Posted by 1INSANEGTO
Not sure what this one is about....


HB 890 Author: Howard, Charlie | Smith, Todd
Sponsor: Davis
Last Action: 06/17/2011 E Effective on 9/1/11
Caption: Relating to certain custom vehicles and street rods.
I think it has to do with the frame of the vehicle not being within a certain length from the ground because it tears up the street. You know when you see those jackasses in lowriders shooting sparks out the back? I think this is pertaining to that, I'm not sure though.
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Old Sep 2, 2011 | 12:26 PM
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Actually, those guys that shoot the sparks have these specific blocks that they bolt underneath they frame that do that. It's not actually the frame that's sparking, but I get what you're saying
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Old Sep 2, 2011 | 12:57 PM
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Originally Posted by rooster99ss
Actually, those guys that shoot the sparks have these specific blocks that they bolt underneath they frame that do that. It's not actually the frame that's sparking, but I get what you're saying
or its for the idiots that put 22" rims and tires on their ford explorer, in which case it makes them flip easier. I heard about this one the other day.
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Old Sep 2, 2011 | 01:17 PM
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Originally Posted by 94fixerTA
Cause cancer is worse for minorities????? This is disturbing.
Woman and minorities affected most. You never heard that?
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Old Sep 2, 2011 | 01:22 PM
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Woman and minorities affected most. You never heard that?
Yep, basically due to not always getting the same level of treatment, whether it be related to insurance coverage, access to good doctors etc.
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Old Sep 2, 2011 | 01:47 PM
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Originally Posted by westtexasbuff
I think it has to do with the frame of the vehicle not being within a certain length from the ground because it tears up the street. You know when you see those jackasses in lowriders shooting sparks out the back? I think this is pertaining to that, I'm not sure though.
Negative. Has to do with the issuance of vehicle titles and custom license plates for custom cars and "street rods." Custom cars have to have the Model/Make/Year of the car they look like but with a "Replica" status. Etc.

Also, HB 1116 may be of interest to some. The bill banning radar jammers has been altered to include laser jammers. Class C misdemeanor.

SB 197 modifies the fines and definitions for "friendly inspections"

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Texas Street Rod & Custom Vehicle Bill Signed Into Law

By Ashley Smissen , June 23, 2011 in News & Events


Legislation to create a vehicle registration classification for street rods and custom vehicles, including kit cars and replicas, was signed into Texas law earlier this week by Gov. Rick Perry.

H.B. 890, which also provides for special license plates for these vehicles, will go into effect on Sept. 1, 2011. The new law defines a street rod as “an altered vehicle manufactured before 1949” and a custom as “an altered vehicle at least 25 years old and manufactured after 1948.”

This bill, according to SEMA, will allow for the use of non-original materials and creates a titling and registration criterion that assigns these vehicles the same model-year designation as the production vehicle they most closely resemble.
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