By:  Junell                                            H.B. No. 476
       73R438 JD-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the registration of trailers and semitrailers.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Subsection (a), Section 2a, Chapter 88, General
    1-5  Laws, Acts of the 41st Legislature, 2nd Called Session, 1929
    1-6  (Article 6675a-2a, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to
    1-7  read as follows:
    1-8        (a)  The owner of a <motor> vehicle covered by Section 1A,
    1-9  Texas Motor Vehicle Safety-Responsibility Act (Article 6701h,
   1-10  Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), other than a trailer or a
   1-11  semitrailer, shall submit with the application for registration
   1-12  under Section 3 of this Act evidence of financial responsibility
   1-13  that is currently valid.
   1-14        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-15  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-16  emergency   and   an   imperative   public   necessity   that   the
   1-17  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-18  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.