By: Truan S.B. No. 980 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to the operation on highways of vehicles that are equipped 1-2 with monitoring devices used in conjunction with mobile 1-3 navigational systems. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 139D, Uniform Act Regulating Traffic on 1-6 Highways (Article 6701d, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended 1-7 by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows: 1-8 (d) This section does not prohibit the use of a monitoring 1-9 device that: 1-10 (1) produces an electronic display; and 1-11 (2) is used exclusively in conjunction with a mobile 1-12 navigation system installed in the vehicle. 1-13 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995. 1-14 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-15 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-16 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-17 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-18 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.