1-1 By: Patterson S.B. No. 526 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed February 10, 1997; February 13, 1997, 1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice; 1-4 March 19, 1997, reported adversely, with favorable Committee 1-5 Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0; March 19, 1997, 1-6 sent to printer.) 1-7 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 526 By: Nelson 1-8 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-9 AN ACT 1-10 relating to the making of a change to an accident report. 1-11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-12 SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 550, Transportation Code, 1-13 is amended by adding Section 550.068 to read as follows: 1-14 Sec. 550.068. CHANGING ACCIDENT REPORT. (a) Except as 1-15 provided by Subsection (b), a change in or a modification of a 1-16 written report of a motor vehicle accident prepared by a peace 1-17 officer or the operator of a vehicle involved in an accident that 1-18 alters a material fact in the report may be made only by the peace 1-19 officer or person who prepared the report. 1-20 (b) A change in or a modification of the written report of 1-21 the accident may be made by a person other than the peace officer 1-22 or the operator of the vehicle if: 1-23 (1) the change is made by a written supplement to the 1-24 report; and 1-25 (2) the written supplement clearly indicates the name 1-26 of the person who originated the change. 1-27 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997. 1-28 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-29 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-30 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-31 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-32 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended. 1-33 * * * * *