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.