1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to notice to an owner or operator of a motor vehicle of

 1-3     security required following an accident.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 601.155, Transportation Code, is amended

 1-6     by amending Subsection (c) and adding Subsection (d) to read as

 1-7     follows:

 1-8           (c)  Notice under this section that is mailed must be mailed

 1-9     [by certified mail, return receipt requested,] to the person's last

1-10     known address, as shown by the department's records.

1-11           (d)  For purposes of this section, notice is presumed to be

1-12     received if the notice was mailed to the person's last known

1-13     address, as shown by the department's records.

1-14           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-15           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-16     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-17     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-18     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-19     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.

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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House

               I certify that H.B. No. 1937 was passed by the House on May

         6, 1997, by a non-record vote.

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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House

               I certify that H.B. No. 1937 was passed by the Senate on May

         26, 1997, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0.

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                                                 Secretary of the Senate

         APPROVED:  _____________________

                            Date

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                          Governor