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.
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