85R3364 AAF-D     By: Watson S.B. No. 2004       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.