By Craddick H.B. No. 830 74R545 PAM-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to requiring seat-locking devices on certain water 1-3 vessels. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 31, Parks and Wildlife 1-6 Code, is amended by adding Section 31.0711 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 31.0711. LOCKING DEVICE FOR SEATS. A vessel equipped 1-8 with a pedestal seat must have a device on the pedestal that holds 1-9 the seat in a fixed position when the vessel is under power. 1-10 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1996. 1-11 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-12 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-13 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-14 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-15 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.