By: Naishtat H.B. No. 93
73R776 CAG-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the offense of failing to require a child riding in a
1-3 car to be secured by a safety belt.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Subsection (c), Section 107C, Uniform Act
1-6 Regulating Traffic on Highways (Article 6701d, Vernon's Texas Civil
1-7 Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
1-8 (c) A person commits an offense if the person:
1-9 (1) operates on a road, street, or highway of this
1-10 state a passenger car that is equipped with safety belts; and
1-11 (2) allows a child who is at least four years old but
1-12 less than 15 years old to ride in <the front seat of> the car
1-13 without requiring the child to be secured by a safety belt.
1-14 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
1-15 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.