1-1 By: Hawley (Senate Sponsor - Armbrister) H.B. No. 2035 1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 22, 1999; 1-3 April 26, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on 1-4 Economic Development; May 14, 1999, reported favorably by the 1-5 following vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 14, 1999, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to insurance coverage for employees of certain motor 1-9 carriers. 1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-11 SECTION 1. Section 643.106(a), Transportation Code, is 1-12 amended to read as follows: 1-13 (a) Notwithstanding any provision of any law or regulation, 1-14 a motor carrier that is required to register under Subchapter B and 1-15 whose primary business is transportation for compensation or hire 1-16 between two or more municipalities shall protect its employees by 1-17 obtaining: 1-18 (1) workers' compensation insurance coverage as 1-19 defined under Subtitle A, Title 5, Labor Code; or 1-20 (2) accidental insurance coverage approved by the 1-21 department from: 1-22 (A) a reliable insurance company authorized to 1-23 write accidental insurance policies in this state; or 1-24 (B) a surplus lines insurer under Article 1-25 1.14-2, Insurance Code. 1-26 SECTION 2. (a) In accordance with Section 311.031(c), 1-27 Government Code, which gives effect to a substantive amendment 1-28 enacted by the same legislature that codifies the amended statute, 1-29 the text of Section 643.106(a), Transportation Code, as set out in 1-30 this Act, gives effect to changes made by Section 4, Chapter 1061, 1-31 Acts of the 75th Legislature, Regular Session, 1997. 1-32 (b) To the extent of any conflict, this Act prevails over 1-33 another Act of the 76th Legislature, Regular Session, 1999, 1-34 relating to nonsubstantive additions and corrections in enacted 1-35 codes. 1-36 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-37 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-38 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-39 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-40 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-41 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-42 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-43 * * * * *