By Brimer H.B. No. 977 75R3212 DWS-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the use of safety chains with certain trailers, 1-3 semitrailers, and house trailers. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 545.410(d), Transportation Code, is 1-6 amended to conform to Section 1, Chapter 842, Acts of the 74th 1-7 Legislature, Regular Session, 1995, and further amended to read as 1-8 follows: 1-9 (d) This section does not apply to a trailer, semitrailer, 1-10 or house trailer that is: 1-11 (1) operated in compliance with the federal motor 1-12 carrier safety regulations; or 1-13 (2) connected to the towing vehicle by a fifth-wheel 1-14 or gooseneck method. 1-15 SECTION 2. In addition to the substantive changes in law 1-16 made by this Act, this Act conforms the Transportation Code to 1-17 changes in law made by Section 1, Chapter 842, Acts of the 74th 1-18 Legislature, Regular Session, 1995. 1-19 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997. 1-20 SECTION 4. 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 1-24 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.