By Oakley H.B. No. 1617 74R6256 JD-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the operation on highways of vehicles that are equipped 1-3 with monitoring devices used in conjunction with mobile 1-4 navigational systems. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Section 139D, Uniform Act Regulating Traffic on 1-7 Highways (Article 6701d, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended 1-8 by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows: 1-9 (d) This section does not prohibit the use of a monitoring 1-10 device that: 1-11 (1) produces an electronic display; and 1-12 (2) is used exclusively in conjunction with a mobile 1-13 navigation system installed in the vehicle. 1-14 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995. 1-15 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.