1-1  By:  Delisi (Senate Sponsor - Wentworth)               H.B. No. 994
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House March 30, 1995;
    1-3  April 4, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on
    1-4  Economic Development; May 16, 1995, reported favorably by the
    1-5  following vote:  Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 16, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-7                                AN ACT
    1-8  relating to the employment of children in certain activities.
    1-9        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-10        SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 51, Labor Code, is amended
   1-11  by adding Section 51.015 to read as follows:
   1-12        Sec. 51.015.  OPERATION OF MOTOR VEHICLE FOR CERTAIN
   1-13  COMMERCIAL PURPOSES.  (a)  An occupation that involves the
   1-14  operation of a motor vehicle by a child for a commercial purpose is
   1-15  not a hazardous occupation under this chapter if the child:
   1-16              (1)  has a driver's license under Chapter 173, Acts of
   1-17  the 47th Legislature, Regular Session, 1941 (Article 6687b,
   1-18  Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes);
   1-19              (2)  is not required to obtain a commercial driver's
   1-20  license under the Texas Commercial Driver's License Act (Article
   1-21  6687b-2, Revised Statutes) to perform the duties of the occupation;
   1-22              (3)  performs the duties of the occupation:
   1-23                    (A)  under the direct supervision of the child's
   1-24  parent or an adult having custody of the child;
   1-25                    (B)  for a business owned or operated by the
   1-26  child's parent or guardian; or
   1-27                    (C)  for a business when written and notarized
   1-28  parental consent has been given; and
   1-29              (4)  operates a vehicle that has no more than two axles
   1-30  and does not exceed a gross vehicle weight rating of 15,000 pounds.
   1-31        (b)  The commission shall adopt rules consistent with this
   1-32  section.
   1-33        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-34  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-35  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-36  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-37  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-38  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-39  passage, and it is so enacted.
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