Amend HB 183 by adding the following appropriately numbered 
SECTION to the bill and renumbering subsequent SECTIONS 
accordingly:
	SECTION ____.  Subchapter I, Chapter 545, Transportation 
Code, is amended by adding Section 545.4121 to read as follows:
	Sec. 545.4121.  DEFENSE; POSSESSION OF CHILD PASSENGER 
SAFETY SEAT SYSTEM.  (a)  This section applies to an offense 
committed under Section 545.412 before September 1, 2006, that 
would not have been an offense under that section as the section 
existed immediately before September 1, 2005.
	(b)  It is a defense to prosecution of an offense to which 
this section applies that the defendant provides to the court 
evidence satisfactory to the court that the defendant possesses an 
appropriate child passenger safety seat system for each child:
		(1)  who is regularly transported by the defendant in a 
passenger vehicle; and
		(2)  who is eight years of age or younger or who is less 
than 57 inches in height.
	(c)  This section expires September 1, 2007.