1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to insurance coverage for employees of  certain motor
 1-3     carriers.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 643.106(a), Transportation Code, is
 1-6     amended to read as follows:
 1-7           (a)  Notwithstanding any provision of any law or regulation,
 1-8     a motor carrier that is required to register under Subchapter B and
 1-9     whose primary business is transportation for compensation or hire
1-10     between two or more municipalities shall protect its employees by
1-11     obtaining:
1-12                 (1)  workers' compensation insurance coverage as
1-13     defined under Subtitle A, Title 5, Labor Code;  or
1-14                 (2)  accidental insurance coverage approved by the
1-15     department from:
1-16                       (A)  a reliable insurance company authorized to
1-17     write accidental insurance policies in this state; or
1-18                       (B)  a surplus lines insurer under Article
1-19     1.14-2, Insurance Code.
1-20           SECTION 2.  (a)  In accordance with Section 311.031(c),
1-21     Government Code, which gives effect to a substantive amendment
1-22     enacted by the same legislature that codifies the amended statute,
1-23     the text of Section 643.106(a), Transportation Code, as set out in
1-24     this Act, gives effect to changes made by Section 4, Chapter 1061,
 2-1     Acts of the 75th Legislature, Regular Session, 1997.
 2-2           (b)  To the extent of any conflict, this Act prevails over
 2-3     another Act of the 76th Legislature, Regular Session, 1999,
 2-4     relating to nonsubstantive additions and corrections in enacted
 2-5     codes.
 2-6           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-7     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-8     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-9     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-10     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-11     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-12     passage, and it is so enacted.
         _______________________________     _______________________________
             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House
               I certify that H.B. No. 2035 was passed by the House on April
         21, 1999, by a non-record vote.
                                             _______________________________
                                                 Chief Clerk of the House
               I certify that H.B. No. 2035 was passed by the Senate on May
         26, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 30, Nays 0.
                                             _______________________________
                                                 Secretary of the Senate
         APPROVED:  _____________________
                            Date
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                          Governor