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Amend Amendment No. 3 on second reading to SB 422 as follows:
(1) On page 1 of the amendment, strike added Subsection (b)
of added Section 601.0521, Transportation Code, and substitute the
following:
"During a season when the vehicle is not in use, it shall be a
valid excuse for failure to establish proof of financial
responsibility that the vehicle is a road tractor, truck-tractor,
farm tractor, farm trailer, or farm semitrailer used exclusively to
transport seasonally harvested agricultural products or livestock
from the place of production to the place of processing, market, or
storage."
(2) On page 1 of the amendment, strike added Subsection (c)
of added Section 601.0521, Transportation Code, and substitute the
following:
"(c) The Texas Department of Transportation may send a
notice under Section 601.502 to the owner of a vehicle to which this
section applies only if the notice contains the option of
responding that the vehicle is used exclusively to transport
seasonally harvested agricultural products or livestock from the
place of production to the place of processing, market, or storage
and that the vehicle is not currently in use."
(3) On page 1 of the amendment, strike added Subsection (d)
of added Section 601.0521, Transportation Code, and substitute the
following:
"(d) The Texas Department of Transportation may provide by
rule a method of determining the season when a vehicle to which this
section applies is in use."