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.