HBA-MPA H.B. 1024 76(R) BILL ANALYSIS Office of House Bill AnalysisH.B. 1024 By: Bosse Transportation 3/27/1999 Introduced BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The 75th Legislature prohibited commercial vehicles from parking overnight in residential neighborhoods. An oversight allowed the trailers of these commercial vehicles to be detached and parked. H.B. 1024 includes trailers and semitrailers in the overnight parking restrictions. RULEMAKING AUTHORITY It is the opinion of the Office of House Bill Analysis that this bill does not expressly delegate any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution. SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS SECTION 1. Amends Section 545.307(a)(1), Transportation Code, to add a road tractor, truck tractor, pole trailer, or semitrailer as defined in Section 541.201, Transportation Code, to the definition of commercial motor vehicles which may not park between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. on residential streets that have been properly posted under the provisions of this section. Makes conforming and nonsubstantive changes. SECTION 2. Makes the change in the definition of commercial motor vehicles applicable to subdivisions that were properly posted under the provisions of this section before the effective date of this Act, without any further requirement for petition. SECTION 3. Effective date: September 1, 1999. SECTION 4. Emergency clause.