By Delisi                                              H.B. No. 994
       74R3219 JMM-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the employment of children in certain activities.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 51, Labor Code, is amended
    1-5  by adding Section 51.015 to read as follows:
    1-6        Sec. 51.015.  OPERATION OF MOTOR VEHICLE FOR CERTAIN
    1-7  COMMERCIAL PURPOSES.  (a)  An occupation that involves the
    1-8  operation of a motor vehicle by a child for a commercial purpose is
    1-9  not a hazardous occupation under this chapter if the child:
   1-10              (1)  has a driver's license under Chapter 173, Acts of
   1-11  the 47th Legislature, Regular Session, 1941 (Article 6687b,
   1-12  Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes);
   1-13              (2)  is not required to obtain a commercial driver's
   1-14  license under the Texas Commercial Driver's License Act (Article
   1-15  6687b-2, Revised Statutes) to perform the duties of the occupation;
   1-16  and
   1-17              (3)  performs the duties of the occupation:
   1-18                    (A)  under the direct supervision of the child's
   1-19  parent or an adult having custody of the child; and
   1-20                    (B)  for a business owned or operated by the
   1-21  parent or custodian.
   1-22        (b)  The commission shall adopt rules consistent with this
   1-23  section.
   1-24        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-1  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-2  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-3  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-4  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-5  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    2-6  passage, and it is so enacted.