H.B. No. 479
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to use of child passenger restraints in a motor vehicle.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Sections 107B(b) and (c), Uniform Act Regulating
    1-5  Traffic on Highways (Article 6701d, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes),
    1-6  are amended to read as follows:
    1-7        (b)  A person commits an offense if the person:
    1-8              (1)  <is a resident of this state;>
    1-9              <(2)>  transports a child younger than two years of age
   1-10  by operating a passenger car or light truck on a road, street, or
   1-11  highway of this state; and
   1-12              (2) <(3)>  does not keep the child secured during the
   1-13  operation of the vehicle in a child passenger safety seat system
   1-14  according to the instructions of the manufacturer of the safety
   1-15  seat system.
   1-16        (c)  A person commits an offense if the person:
   1-17              (1)  <is a resident of this state;>
   1-18              <(2)>  transports a child who is two years of age or
   1-19  older and under four years of age by operating a passenger car or
   1-20  light truck on a road, street, or highway of this state; and
   1-21              (2) <(3)>  does not keep the child secured during the
   1-22  operation of the vehicle in a child passenger safety seat system
   1-23  according to the instructions of the manufacturer of the safety
   1-24  seat system or by a safety belt.
    2-1        SECTION 2.  (a)  The changes in law made by this Act apply
    2-2  only to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this
    2-3  Act.  For purposes of this section, an offense was committed before
    2-4  the effective date of this Act if any element of the offense
    2-5  occurred before that date.
    2-6        (b)  An offense committed before the effective date of this
    2-7  Act is covered by the law in effect when the offense was committed,
    2-8  and the former law is continued in effect for this purpose.
    2-9        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   2-10        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-11  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-12  emergency   and   an   imperative   public   necessity   that   the
   2-13  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-14  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.