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.