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.