1-1 By: Naishtat (Senate Sponsor - Zaffirini) H.B. No. 1502
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 3, 1993;
1-3 May 4, 1993, read first time and referred to Committee on Health
1-4 and Human Services; May 11, 1993, reported favorably by the
1-5 following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 11, 1993, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-7 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-8 Zaffirini x
1-9 Ellis x
1-10 Madla x
1-11 Moncrief x
1-12 Nelson x
1-13 Patterson x
1-14 Shelley x
1-15 Truan x
1-16 Wentworth x
1-17 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-18 AN ACT
1-19 relating to distribution of child passenger safety seat systems by
1-20 the Texas Department of Health.
1-21 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-22 SECTION 1. Subtitle B, Title 2, Health and Safety Code, is
1-23 amended by adding Chapter 45 to read as follows:
1-24 CHAPTER 45. DISTRIBUTION OF CHILD PASSENGER SAFETY SEAT SYSTEMS
1-25 Sec. 45.001. DEFINITION. In this chapter, "child passenger
1-26 safety seat system" has the meaning assigned by Section 107B,
1-27 Uniform Act Regulating Traffic on Highways (Article 6701d, Vernon's
1-28 Texas Civil Statutes).
1-29 Sec. 45.002. CHILD PASSENGER SAFETY SEAT SYSTEM PROGRAM.
1-30 (a) The department may establish a program to distribute child
1-31 passenger safety seat systems to indigent persons in this state.
1-32 (b) A program established under this section may distribute
1-33 new or used child passenger safety seat systems that have been
1-34 donated to the department for distribution.
1-35 Sec. 45.003. RULES. The board may adopt rules governing
1-36 eligibility for a child passenger safety seat system from the
1-37 program established under Section 45.002.
1-38 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-39 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-40 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-41 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-42 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-43 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-44 passage, and it is so enacted.
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1-46 Austin,
1-47 Texas
1-48 May 11, 1993
1-49 Hon. Bob Bullock
1-50 President of the Senate
1-51 Sir:
1-52 We, your Committee on Health and Human Services to which was
1-53 referred H.B. No. 1502, have had the same under consideration, and
1-54 I am instructed to report it back to the Senate with the
1-55 recommendation that it do pass and be printed.
1-56 Moncrief,
1-57 Acting Chair
1-58 * * * * *
1-59 WITNESSES
1-60 FOR AGAINST ON
1-61 ___________________________________________________________________
1-62 Name: Cheryl Lackey x x
1-63 Representing: Texas Department of Health
1-64 City: Austin
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1-66 Name: Ann M. Streetman x
1-67 Representing: Texas Safety Association
1-68 City: Austin
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