1-1     By:  Flores (Senate Sponsor - Lucio)                  H.B. No. 1937

 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House May 7, 1997;

 1-3     May 8, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on State

 1-4     Affairs; May 16, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote:

 1-5     Yeas 13, Nays 0; May 16, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-7                                   AN ACT

 1-8     relating to notice to an owner or operator of a motor vehicle of

 1-9     security required following an accident.

1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-11           SECTION 1.  Section 601.155, Transportation Code, is amended

1-12     by amending Subsection (c) and adding Subsection (d) to read as

1-13     follows:

1-14           (c)  Notice under this section that is mailed must be mailed

1-15     [by certified mail, return receipt requested,] to the person's last

1-16     known address, as shown by the department's records.

1-17           (d)  For purposes of this section, notice is presumed to be

1-18     received if the notice was mailed to the person's last known

1-19     address, as shown by the department's records.

1-20           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-21           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-22     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-23     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-24     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-25     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.

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