By Henderson S.B. No. 900 74R7293 JD-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the admissibility in a suit affecting the parent-child 1-3 relationship of evidence relating to the use or nonuse of a child 1-4 passenger safety seat system or a safety belt in certain motor 1-5 vehicles being operated on a highway. 1-6 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-7 SECTION 1. Section 107B(f), Uniform Act Regulating Traffic 1-8 on Highways (Article 6701d, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is 1-9 amended to read as follows: 1-10 (f) Use or nonuse of a child passenger safety seat system is 1-11 not admissible evidence in a civil trial, other than a proceeding 1-12 under Subtitle A, Title 2, Family Code. 1-13 SECTION 2. Section 107C(j), Uniform Act Regulating Traffic 1-14 on Highways (Article 6701d, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is 1-15 amended to read as follows: 1-16 (j) Use or nonuse of a safety belt is not admissible 1-17 evidence in a civil trial, other than a proceeding under Subtitle 1-18 A, Title 2, Family Code. 1-19 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995. The 1-20 changes in law made by this Act apply only to a proceeding under 1-21 Subtitle A, Title 2, Family Code, that is initiated on or after 1-22 September 1, 1995. A proceeding under Subtitle A, Title 2, Family 1-23 Code, that was initiated before September 1, 1995, is covered by 1-24 the law in effect when the proceeding was initiated, and the former 2-1 law is continued in effect for that purpose. 2-2 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 2-3 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-4 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-5 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-6 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.