1-1 By: Truan S.B. No. 980 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 8, 1995; March 8, 1995, read 1-3 first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs; 1-4 April 7, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 10, 1-5 Nays 0; April 7, 1995, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to the operation on highways of vehicles that are equipped 1-9 with monitoring devices used in conjunction with mobile 1-10 navigational systems. 1-11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-12 SECTION 1. Section 139D, Uniform Act Regulating Traffic on 1-13 Highways (Article 6701d, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended 1-14 by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows: 1-15 (d) This section does not prohibit the use of a monitoring 1-16 device that: 1-17 (1) produces an electronic display; and 1-18 (2) is used exclusively in conjunction with a mobile 1-19 navigation system installed in the vehicle. 1-20 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995. 1-21 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-24 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-25 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended. 1-26 * * * * *