Officers conducting enforcement on a STEP-COMP grant will make enforcement of Impaired Driving, Occupant Protection, Speed, Intersection Traffic Control, and Distracted Driving their top priority during enforcement, although any traffic-related probable cause may be used to initiate a vehicle stop.

In order for a vehicle stop to be counted as part of the agency's grant performance, the vehicle stop must be initiated for infractions witnessed inside of, or in route to an established Enforcement Zone.

For purposes of documentation, each officer's Daily Activity Report (DAR) should reflect the Enforcement Zone in which the stop was made, the time and specific location of the stop (i.e. 4800 block of South Broadway), and at what time individual car stops were made.

The officer should run the offender's driver license for warrants, run the vehicle registration for its history, and must document taking one of the following three actions:

Agencies will still document and report the numbers of such warnings, citations and arrests made on STEP time to TxDOT at the end of each month or enforcement period, but there will be no target numbers established for each individual element. Agencies will be considered to be in compliance with TxDOT performance expectations as long as they maintain an average of 2.5 vehicle stops or more during each hour of STEP-COMP enforcement.