By Delisi H.B. No. 853
75R3992 JD-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the prosecution of an offense related to the failure to
1-3 maintain financial responsibility for a motor vehicle.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 601.193, Transportation Code, is amended
1-6 to read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 601.193. DEFENSE: FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY [INSURANCE]
1-8 IN EFFECT AT TIME OF ALLEGED OFFENSE. [(a)] It is a defense to
1-9 prosecution under Section 601.191 or 601.195 [this chapter] that
1-10 the person charged produces one of the documents listed in Section
1-11 601.053(a) [in court a motor vehicle liability insurance policy or
1-12 a certificate of self-insurance previously issued to that person]
1-13 that was valid at the time that the offense is alleged to have
1-14 occurred.
1-15 [(b) If the person charged produces the policy or
1-16 certificate described by Subsection (a), the court shall dismiss
1-17 the charge.]
1-18 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-22 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-23 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-24 passage, and it is so enacted.