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.