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HB4955 • 2025

Relating to lighting equipment requirements for motor vehicles.

Relating to lighting equipment requirements for motor vehicles.

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Patterson
Last action
2025-05-21
Official status
05/21/2025 H Comm. report sent to Local & Consent Calendar
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Relating to lighting equipment requirements for motor vehicles.

Relating to lighting equipment requirements for motor vehicles.

What This Bill Does

  • Relating to lighting equipment requirements for motor vehicles.

Limits and Unknowns

  • This entry is temporarily using official source text because the generated explanation could not be confirmed against the official bill text during the last sync.

Bill History

  1. 2025-05-21 Texas Legislature Online

    Comm. report sent to Local & Consent Calendar

  2. 2025-05-20 Texas Legislature Online

    Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator

  3. 2025-05-20 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee report distributed

  4. 2025-05-09 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in formal meeting

  5. 2025-05-09 Texas Legislature Online

    Recommended to be sent to Local & Consent

  6. 2025-05-09 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported favorably w/o amendment(s)

  7. 2025-05-08 Texas Legislature Online

    Scheduled for public hearing on . . .

  8. 2025-05-08 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in public hearing

  9. 2025-05-08 Texas Legislature Online

    Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee

  10. 2025-05-08 Texas Legislature Online

    Left pending in committee

  11. 2025-04-03 Texas Legislature Online

    Read first time

  12. 2025-04-03 Texas Legislature Online

    Referred to Transportation

  13. 2025-03-13 Texas Legislature Online

    Filed

Official Summary Text

Relating to lighting equipment requirements for motor vehicles.

Current Bill Text

Read the full stored bill text 
89(R) HB 4955 - House Committee Report version - Bill Text

89R184 DRS-F

By: Patterson

H.B. No. 4955

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to lighting equipment requirements for motor vehicles.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Section 547.323, Transportation Code, is amended

by adding Subsection (g) to read as follows:

(g)

For purposes of Section 547.3215, a high-mounted

stoplamp is considered to comply with the current federal standards

in 49 C.F.R. Section 571.108 if the stoplamp varies in intensity

four or fewer times but never deactivates when the vehicle brakes

for not more than two seconds.

SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.