By:  Shapiro                                          S.B. No. 1233

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

                                       AN ACT

 1-1     relating to exemption from inscription requirements for an

 1-2     automobile used by a municipal or county medical examiner.

 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Subsections (a) and (b), Section 721.005,

 1-5     Transportation Code, are amended to read as follows:

 1-6           (a)  The governing body of a municipality may exempt from the

 1-7     requirements of Section 721.004 an automobile when used to perform

 1-8     an official duty by a:

 1-9                 (1)  police department; [or]

1-10                 (2)  magistrate as defined by Article 2.09, Code of

1-11     Criminal Procedure; or

1-12                 (3)  medical examiner.

1-13           (b)  The commissioners court of a county may exempt from the

1-14     requirements of Section 721.004:

1-15                 (1)  an automobile when used to perform an official

1-16     duty by a:

1-17                       (A)  police department;

1-18                       (B)  sheriff's office;

1-19                       (C)  constable's office;

1-20                       (D)  criminal district attorney's office;

1-21                       (E)  district attorney's office;

1-22                       (F)  county attorney's office; [or]

1-23                       (G)  magistrate as defined by Article 2.09, Code

 2-1     of Criminal Procedure; or

 2-2                       (H)  medical examiner; or

 2-3                 (2)  a juvenile probation department vehicle used to

 2-4     transport children, when used to perform an official duty.

 2-5           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

 2-6     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

 2-7     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

 2-8     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

 2-9     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

2-10     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

2-11     passage, and it is so enacted.