1-1  By:  Wentworth                                         S.B. No. 706
    1-2        (In the Senate - Filed February 22, 1995; February 23, 1995,
    1-3  read first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
    1-4  March 6, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 11,
    1-5  Nays 0; March 6, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-7                                AN ACT
    1-8  relating to the wearing of seat belts by certain vehicle operators
    1-9  and passengers.
   1-10        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-11        SECTION 1.  Subsection (h), Section 107C, Uniform Act
   1-12  Regulating Traffic on Highways (Article 6701d, Vernon's Texas Civil
   1-13  Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
   1-14        (h)  This section does not apply to persons who are:
   1-15              (1)  employed by the United States Postal Service while
   1-16  performing duties for that federal agency which require the
   1-17  operator to service postal boxes from their vehicles or which
   1-18  require frequent entry into and exit from their vehicles; or
   1-19              (2)  engaged in the actual delivery of newspapers from
   1-20  their vehicles or performing newspaper delivery duties that require
   1-21  frequent entry into and exit from their vehicles.
   1-22        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-23        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-24  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-25  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-26  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-27  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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