By: Yost H.B. No. 1094
73R5159 JD-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the wearing of protective headgear by motorcycle
1-3 riders.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Sections 2(c) and (d), Chapter 329, Acts of the
1-6 60th Legislature, Regular Session, 1967 (Article 6701c-3, Vernon's
1-7 Texas Civil Statutes), are amended to read as follows:
1-8 (c) A medical exemption may only be issued by a practicing
1-9 physician licensed to practice medicine by the Texas State Board of
1-10 Medical Examiners, or by a practicing doctor of chiropractic
1-11 licensed to practice chiropractic by the Texas Board of
1-12 Chiropractic Examiners to a person who has sustained an acute head
1-13 or facial injury that would be worsened if the person wore
1-14 protective headgear.
1-15 (d) A medical exemption<:>
1-16 <(1)> must be on a form prescribed by the Department
1-17 of Public Safety<; and>
1-18 <(2) expires on the 10th day after the date it is
1-19 issued>.
1-20 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993. The
1-21 change in law made by this Act applies only to an offense committed
1-22 on or after that date. An offense committed before the effective
1-23 date of this Act is covered by the law in effect when the offense
1-24 was committed, and the former law is continued in effect for that
2-1 purpose. For purposes of this section, an offense was committed
2-2 before the effective date of this Act if any element of the offense
2-3 occurred before that date.
2-4 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-5 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-6 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-7 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-8 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.