By:  Armbrister                                       S.B. No. 1540
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to proof of financial responsibility under certain
    1-2  circumstances.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Chapter 88, General Laws, Acts of the 41st
    1-5  Legislature, 2nd Called Session, 1929 (Article 6675a-1 et. seq.,
    1-6  Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended by amending Subsection
    1-7  (a), and adding Subsection (i) to read as follows:
    1-8        (a)  Except as otherwise provided by this section, the <The>
    1-9  owner of a vehicle covered by Section 1A, Texas Motor Vehicle
   1-10  Safety-Responsibility Act (Article 6701h, Vernon's Texas Civil
   1-11  Statutes), other than a trailer or semitrailer, shall submit with
   1-12  the application for registration under Section 3 of this Act
   1-13  evidence of financial responsibility that is valid.  A personal
   1-14  automobile insurance policy used as evidence of financial
   1-15  responsibility under this subsection must be written for a term of
   1-16  30 days or more as required by Article 5.06, Insurance Code.
   1-17        (i)  The provisions of Subsection (a) of this section do not
   1-18  apply to the registration of a motor vehicle when registration
   1-19  occurs at the time of the transfer of title to the vehicle.
   1-20        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-21  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-22  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-23  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-1  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-2  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    2-3  passage, and it is so enacted.