By Hawley H.B. No. 2035
76R5963 DRH-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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.