By Delisi                                              H.B. No. 502
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the printing of a statement regarding a health care
    1-3  directive on the reverse side of a driver's license.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Article II, Chapter 173, Acts of the 47th
    1-6  Legislature, Regular Session, 1941 (Article 6687b, Vernon's Texas
    1-7  Civil Statutes), is amended by adding Section 11D to read as
    1-8  follows:
    1-9        Sec. 11D.  DIRECTIVE TO PHYSICIAN ON REVERSE SIDE OF LICENSE.
   1-10  On the reverse side of each driver's license the Department shall
   1-11  print "Directive to physician has been filed at tel. #" followed by
   1-12  a line that the holder of the license may use to indicate the
   1-13  appropriate telephone number.
   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.