75R11915 DRH-F
By Flores H.B. No. 1937
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1937:
By Wise C.S.H.B. No. 1937
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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.