By:  Horn                                             H.B. No. 1758
       73R6082 JD-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to reports of certain traffic accidents.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 44, Uniform Act Regulating Traffic on
    1-5  Highways (Article 6701d, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended
    1-6  by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
    1-7        (d)  A law enforcement officer who, after August 31, 1993,
    1-8  investigates a motor vehicle accident not resulting in injury to or
    1-9  death of any person or in damage to the property of any one person
   1-10  to an apparent extent of at least Five Hundred Dollars ($500) is
   1-11  prohibited from forwarding a written report of that accident to the
   1-12  Department.
   1-13        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   1-14        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-15  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-16  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-17  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-18  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.