1-1  By:  Henderson                                         S.B. No. 900
    1-2        (In the Senate - Filed March 2, 1995; March 6, 1995, read
    1-3  first time and referred to Committee on Jurisprudence;
    1-4  April 11, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 6,
    1-5  Nays 0; April 11, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-7                                AN ACT
    1-8  relating to the admissibility in a suit affecting the parent-child
    1-9  relationship of evidence relating to the use or nonuse of a child
   1-10  passenger safety seat system or a safety belt in certain motor
   1-11  vehicles being operated on a highway.
   1-12        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-13        SECTION 1.  Subsection (f), Section 107B, Uniform Act
   1-14  Regulating Traffic on Highways (Article 6701d, Vernon's Texas Civil
   1-15  Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
   1-16        (f)  Use or nonuse of a child passenger safety seat system is
   1-17  not admissible evidence in a civil trial, other than a proceeding
   1-18  under Subtitle A, Title 2, Family Code.
   1-19        SECTION 2.  Subsection (j), Section 107C, Uniform Act
   1-20  Regulating Traffic on Highways (Article 6701d, Vernon's Texas Civil
   1-21  Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
   1-22        (j)  Use or nonuse of a safety belt is not admissible
   1-23  evidence in a civil trial, other than a proceeding under Subtitle
   1-24  A, Title 2, Family Code.
   1-25        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.  The
   1-26  changes in law made by this Act apply only to a proceeding under
   1-27  Subtitle A, Title 2, Family Code, that is initiated on or after
   1-28  September 1, 1995.  A proceeding under Subtitle A, Title 2, Family
   1-29  Code, that was initiated before September 1, 1995, is covered by
   1-30  the law in effect when the proceeding was initiated, and the former
   1-31  law is continued in effect for that purpose.
   1-32        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-33  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-34  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-35  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-36  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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