By:  Wentworth                                        S.B. No. 1363
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to required protective headgear for motorcycle operators
    1-2  and passengers.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Subsections (c) and (d), Section 2, Chapter 329,
    1-5  Acts of the 60th Legislature, Regular Session, 1967 (Article
    1-6  6701c-3, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), are amended to read as
    1-7  follows:
    1-8        (c)  A medical exemption may only be issued by a practicing
    1-9  physician licensed to practice medicine by the Texas State Board of
   1-10  Medical Examiners to a person who has a medical condition
   1-11  <sustained an acute head or facial injury> that would be worsened
   1-12  if the person wore protective headgear.
   1-13        (d)  A medical exemption:
   1-14              (1)  must be on a form prescribed by the Department of
   1-15  Public Safety; and
   1-16              (2)  expires on the earlier of:
   1-17                    (A)  the 180th <10th> day after the date it is
   1-18  issued; or
   1-19                    (B)  the expiration date specified by the issuing
   1-20  physician on the form; or
   1-21        (3)  shall be permanent if a physician attests that the
   1-22  medical condition causing the need for the exemption is a permanent
   1-23  condition.
    2-1        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.  The
    2-2  change in law made by this Act applies only to a medical exemption
    2-3  that is issued on or after that date.  A medical exemption that was
    2-4  issued before the effective date of this Act is covered by the law
    2-5  in effect when the exemption was issued, and the former law is
    2-6  continued in effect for that purpose.
    2-7        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-8  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-9  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-10  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-11  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.