By Hupp H.B. No. 534 76R2715 DWS-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to persons required to be secured by a motor vehicle 1-3 safety belt. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 545.413(a), Transportation Code, is 1-6 amended to read as follows: 1-7 (a) A person commits an offense if the person: 1-8 (1) is at least 15 years of age but younger than 18 1-9 years of age; 1-10 (2) is riding in the front seat of a passenger car 1-11 while the vehicle is being operated; 1-12 (3) is occupying a seat that is equipped with a safety 1-13 belt; and 1-14 (4) is not secured by a safety belt. 1-15 SECTION 2. (a) The change in law made by this Act applies 1-16 only to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this 1-17 Act. For the purposes of this section, an offense is committed 1-18 before the effective date of this Act if any element of the offense 1-19 occurs before that date. 1-20 (b) An offense committed before the effective date of this 1-21 Act is governed by the law in effect when the offense was 1-22 committed, and the former law is continued in effect for that 1-23 purpose. 1-24 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 2-1 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 2-2 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-3 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-4 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-5 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.