By:  Henderson                                         S.B. No. 900
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to the admissibility in a suit affecting the parent-child
    1-2  relationship of evidence relating to the use or nonuse of a child
    1-3  passenger safety seat system or a safety belt in certain motor
    1-4  vehicles being operated on a highway.
    1-5        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-6        SECTION 1.  Subsection (f), Section 107B, Uniform Act
    1-7  Regulating Traffic on Highways (Article 6701d, Vernon's Texas Civil
    1-8  Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
    1-9        (f)  Use or nonuse of a child passenger safety seat system is
   1-10  not admissible evidence in a civil trial, other than a proceeding
   1-11  under Subtitle A, Title 2, Family Code.
   1-12        SECTION 2.  Subsection (j), Section 107C, Uniform Act
   1-13  Regulating Traffic on Highways (Article 6701d, Vernon's Texas Civil
   1-14  Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
   1-15        (j)  Use or nonuse of a safety belt is not admissible
   1-16  evidence in a civil trial, other than a proceeding under Subtitle
   1-17  A, Title 2, Family Code.
   1-18        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.  The
   1-19  changes in law made by this Act apply only to a proceeding under
   1-20  Subtitle A, Title 2, Family Code, that is initiated on or after
   1-21  September 1, 1995.  A proceeding under Subtitle A, Title 2, Family
   1-22  Code, that was initiated before September 1, 1995, is covered by
   1-23  the law in effect when the proceeding was initiated, and the former
   1-24  law is continued in effect for that purpose.
    2-1        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-2  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-3  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-4  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-5  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.