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.
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