By Moreno of El Paso H.B. No. 994 76R3843 DWS-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to an offense of using a telephone while operating a motor 1-3 vehicle. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter I, Chapter 545, Transportation Code, 1-6 is amended by adding Section 545.424 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 545.424. USE OF TELEPHONE. An operator may not use a 1-8 telephone while operating a motor vehicle unless: 1-9 (1) the vehicle is stopped; or 1-10 (2) the telephone is used without use of either of the 1-11 operator's hands. 1-12 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 1-13 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-14 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-15 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-16 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-17 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.