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        relating to seat belt requirements for certain vehicles. | 
      
      
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               BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | 
      
      
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               SECTION 1.  Subsection (f), Section 547.701, Transportation  | 
      
      
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        Code, is amended to read as follows: | 
      
      
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               (f)  A school district is required to comply with Subsection  | 
      
      
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        (e) only to the extent that the legislature has appropriated money  | 
      
      
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        for the purpose of reimbursing school districts for expenses  | 
      
      
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        incurred in complying with Subsection (e) [Texas Education Agency 
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          pays or commits to pay the district for expenses incurred in 
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          complying with that subsection.
           
           
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          make grants of appropriated money for the purpose of paying school 
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          districts under this subsection]. | 
      
      
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               SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2011. | 
      
      
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           President of the Senate | 
        Speaker of the House      | 
      
      
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               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1610 passed the Senate on  | 
      
      
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        May 11, 2011, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0. | 
      
      
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        Secretary of the Senate     | 
      
      
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               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1610 passed the House on  | 
      
      
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        May 23, 2011, by the following vote:  Yeas 142, Nays 0, one  | 
      
      
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        present not voting. | 
      
      
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        Approved: | 
      
      
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