By Haywood                                             S.B. No. 101

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to proof of financial responsibility for reinstatement of

 1-3     a driver's license or nonresident's operating privilege.

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

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Subchapter K, Chapter 601, Transportation Code,

 1-6     is amended by adding Section 601.343 to read as follows:

 1-7           Sec. 601.343.  ESTABLISHMENT OF FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR

 1-8     REINSTATEMENT.  (a)  This section applies only to a person who has

 1-9     had the person's driver's license or nonresident's operating

1-10     privilege  suspended under this chapter more than twice.

1-11           (b)  For the purposes of reinstatement of the driver's

1-12     license or nonresident's operating privilege of, or issuance of a

1-13     new driver's license to, a person to whom this section applies, the

1-14     person may not establish financial responsibility through a motor

1-15     vehicle liability insurance policy unless the policy is valid for

1-16     at least 90 days and all premiums on the policy have been paid in

1-17     full.

1-18           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-19           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-20     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-21     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-22     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-23     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.