By: Harwood S.B. No. 1581
99S0557/1
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the investigation and reporting of certain motor
1-2 vehicle accidents.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 550.041, Transportation
1-5 Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-6 (a) A peace officer who is notified of a motor vehicle
1-7 accident resulting in injury to or death of a person or property
1-8 damage to an apparent extent of at least $1,000 [$500] may
1-9 investigate the accident and file justifiable charges relating to
1-10 the accident without regard to whether the accident occurred on
1-11 property to which this chapter applies.
1-12 SECTION 2. Subsection (a), Section 550.061, Transportation
1-13 Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-14 (a) The operator of a vehicle involved in an accident shall
1-15 make a written report of the accident if the accident is not
1-16 investigated by a law enforcement officer and the accident resulted
1-17 in injury to or the death of a person or damage to the property of
1-18 any one person to an apparent extent of $1,000 [$500] or more.
1-19 SECTION 3. Subsection (a), Section 550.062, Transportation
1-20 Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-21 (a) A law enforcement officer who in the regular course of
1-22 duty investigates a motor vehicle accident shall make a written
1-23 report of the accident if the accident resulted in injury to or the
1-24 death of a person or damage to the property of any one person to
2-1 the apparent extent of $1,000 [$500] or more.
2-2 SECTION 4. This act takes effect September 1, 1999.
2-3 SECTION 5. The importance of this legislation and the
2-4 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-5 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-6 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-7 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.