1-1     By:  Krusee (Senate Sponsor - Jackson)                H.B. No. 1359
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House April 26, 1999;
 1-3     April 27, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on State
 1-4     Affairs; May 7, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:
 1-5     Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 7, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to the use of golf carts on public roadways.
 1-9           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-10           SECTION 1.  Section 502.284(a), Transportation Code, is
1-11     amended to read as follows:
1-12           (a) An owner of a golf cart [driven to and from a golf
1-13     course] is not required to register the golf cart if:
1-14                 (1)  the operation of the golf cart occurs in the
1-15     daytime, as defined by Section 541.401; and
1-16                 (2)  the operation:
1-17                       (A)  does not exceed a distance of two miles from
1-18     the point of origin to the destination if driven to and from a golf
1-19     course; or
1-20                       (B)  occurs entirely within a master planned
1-21     community with a uniform set of restrictive covenants that has had
1-22     a plat approved by a county or a municipality.
1-23           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-24           SECTION 3.  The change in law made by this Act applies only
1-25     to activity taking place on or after the effective date of this
1-26     Act. Activity that took place before the effective date of this Act
1-27     is covered by the law in effect when the activity occurred, and the
1-28     former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
1-29           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-30     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-31     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-32     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-33     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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