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.