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Amend HB 183 by striking below the enabling clause and 
substituting the following:
	SECTION 1.  Section 545.412(a), Transportation Code, as 
amended by Chapters 618 and 910, Acts of the 77th Legislature, 
Regular Session, 2001, is reenacted and amended to read as follows:
	(a)  A person commits an offense if the person operates a 
passenger vehicle, transports a child who is younger than five 
[four] years of age and [or] less than 36 inches in height, and does 
not keep the child secured during the operation of the vehicle in a 
child passenger safety seat system according to the instructions of 
the manufacturer of the safety seat system.
	SECTION 2.  Section 545.412(e), Transportation Code, is 
amended to read as follows:
	(e)  This section does not apply to a person:                                  
		(1)  operating a vehicle transporting passengers for 
hire, including third party transport service providers when 
transporting clients pursuant to a contract to provide nonemergency 
Medicaid transportation; or
		(2)  transporting a child in a vehicle in which all 
seating positions equipped with child passenger safety seat systems 
or safety belts are occupied.
	SECTION 3.  Section 545.413(b), Transportation Code, is 
amended to read as follows:
	(b)  A person commits an offense if the person:                                
		(1)  operates a passenger vehicle that is equipped with 
safety belts; and   
		(2)  allows a child who is [at least five years of age 
but] younger than 17 years of age [or who is younger than five years 
of age] and who is not required to be secured in a child passenger 
safety seat system under Section 545.412(a) [at least 36 inches in 
height] to ride in the vehicle without requiring the child to be 
secured by a safety belt, provided the child is occupying a seat 
that is equipped with a safety belt.
	SECTION 4.  (a)  The change in law made by this Act applies 
only to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this 
Act.  For the purposes of this section, an offense is committed 
before the effective date of this Act if any element of the offense 
occurs before that date.
	(b)  An offense committed before the effective date of this 
Act is governed by the law in effect when the offense was committed, 
and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
	SECTION 5.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2005.