1-1 By: Wentworth S.B. No. 1363
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 13, 1995; March 20, 1995, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
1-4 April 21, 1995, reported favorably, as amended, by the following
1-5 vote: Yeas 11, Nays 0; April 21, 1995, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1 By: Wentworth
1-7 Amend S.B. No. 1363 as follows:
1-8 (1) Amend existing Subdivision (c) of Section 2 of Article
1-9 6701c-3 to read as follows:
1-10 (c) A medical exemption may only be issued by a practicing
1-11 physician licensed to practice medicine by the Texas State Board of
1-12 Medical Examiners to a person who has a medical condition
1-13 <sustained an acute head or facial injury> that would be worsened
1-14 if the person wore protective headgear.
1-15 (2) Strike the period at the end of Subsection (d)(2) and
1-16 insert ; or and add a new Subsection (d)(3) to existing Article
1-17 6701c-3, to read as follows:
1-18 (3) shall be permanent if a physician attests that the
1-19 medical condition causing the need for the exemption is a permanent
1-20 condition.
1-21 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-22 AN ACT
1-23 relating to required protective headgear for motorcycle operators
1-24 and passengers.
1-25 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-26 SECTION 1. Subsection (d), Section 2, Chapter 329, Acts of
1-27 the 60th Legislature, Regular Session, 1967 (Article 6701c-3,
1-28 Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
1-29 (d) A medical exemption:
1-30 (1) must be on a form prescribed by the Department of
1-31 Public Safety; and
1-32 (2) expires on the earlier of:
1-33 (A) the 180th <10th> day after the date it is
1-34 issued; or
1-35 (B) the expiration date specified by the issuing
1-36 physician on the form.
1-37 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995. The
1-38 change in law made by this Act applies only to a medical exemption
1-39 that is issued on or after that date. A medical exemption that was
1-40 issued before the effective date of this Act is covered by the law
1-41 in effect when the exemption was issued, and the former law is
1-42 continued in effect for that purpose.
1-43 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-44 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-45 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-46 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-47 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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