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          By Naishtat                                           H.B. No. 1502
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to distribution of child passenger safety seat systems by
    1-3  the Texas Department of Health.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Subtitle B, Title 2, Health and Safety  Code, is
    1-6  amended by adding Chapter 45 to read as follows:
    1-7   CHAPTER 45.  DISTRIBUTION OF CHILD PASSENGER SAFETY SEAT SYSTEMS
    1-8        Sec. 45.001.  DEFINITION.  In this chapter, "child passenger
    1-9  safety seat system" has the meaning assigned by Section 107B,
   1-10  Uniform Act Regulating Traffic on Highways (Article 6701d, Vernon's
   1-11  Texas Civil Statutes).
   1-12        Sec. 45.002.  CHILD PASSENGER SAFETY SEAT SYSTEM PROGRAM.
   1-13  (a)  The department may establish a program to distribute child
   1-14  passenger safety seat systems to indigent persons in this state.
   1-15        (b)  A program established under this section may distribute
   1-16  new or used child passenger safety seat systems that have been
   1-17  donated to the department for distribution.
   1-18        Sec. 45.003.  RULES.  The board may adopt rules governing
   1-19  eligibility for a child passenger safety seat system from the
   1-20  program established under Section 45.002.
   1-21        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-22  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-23  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-24  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-1  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-2  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    2-3  passage, and it is so enacted.