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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