By: Naishtat H.B. No. 1502 73R1305 DLF-D 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 Sec. 45.004. DEPARTMENT NOT LIABLE. Notwithstanding Section 1-22 101.021, Civil Practice and Remedies Code, or any other law, the 1-23 department is not liable for personal injury or death caused by use 1-24 of a child passenger safety seat system distributed by the 2-1 department under this chapter. 2-2 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 2-3 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-4 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-5 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-6 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-7 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-8 passage, and it is so enacted.