1-1  By:  Delisi (Senate Sponsor - Sibley)                  H.B. No. 502
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House April 13, 1993;
    1-3  April 14, 1993, read first time and referred to Committee on State
    1-4  Affairs; April 28, 1993, reported favorably by the following vote:
    1-5  Yeas 9, Nays 0; April 28, 1993, sent to printer.)
    1-6                            COMMITTEE VOTE
    1-7                          Yea     Nay      PNV      Absent 
    1-8        Harris of Dallas   x                               
    1-9        Rosson             x                               
   1-10        Carriker                                       x   
   1-11        Henderson                                      x   
   1-12        Leedom             x                               
   1-13        Lucio              x                               
   1-14        Luna               x                               
   1-15        Nelson             x                               
   1-16        Patterson                                      x   
   1-17        Shelley            x                               
   1-18        Sibley             x                               
   1-19        West               x                               
   1-20        Whitmire                                       x   
   1-21                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
   1-22                                AN ACT
   1-23  relating to the printing of a statement regarding a health care
   1-24  directive on the reverse side of a driver's license.
   1-25        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-26        SECTION 1.  Article II, Chapter 173, Acts of the 47th
   1-27  Legislature, Regular Session, 1941 (Article 6687b, Vernon's Texas
   1-28  Civil Statutes), is amended by adding Section 11D to read as
   1-29  follows:
   1-30        Sec. 11D.  DIRECTIVE TO PHYSICIAN ON REVERSE SIDE OF LICENSE.
   1-31  On the reverse side of each driver's license the Department shall
   1-32  print "Directive to physician has been filed at tel. #" followed by
   1-33  a line that the holder of the license may use to indicate the
   1-34  appropriate telephone number.
   1-35        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   1-36        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-37  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-38  emergency   and   an   imperative   public   necessity   that   the
   1-39  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-40  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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   1-42                                                         Austin,
   1-43  Texas
   1-44                                                         April 28, 1993
   1-45  Hon. Bob Bullock
   1-46  President of the Senate
   1-47  Sir:
   1-48  We, your Committee on State Affairs to which was referred H.B.
   1-49  No. 502, have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed
   1-50  to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do
   1-51  pass and be printed.
   1-52                                                         Harris of
   1-53  Dallas, Chairman
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   1-55                               WITNESSES
   1-56  No witnesses appeared on H.B. No. 502.