Amend Amendment No. 163 by Hughes to CSHB 300 (#811548), on
page 1 of the amendment, between lines 4 and 5, by inserting the
following SECTION in the amendment and renumbering subsequent
SECTIONS accordingly:
SECTION ____.01 Sections 545.412(e) and (f),
Transportation Code, are amended to read as follows:
(e) This section does not apply to a person:
(1) operating a vehicle transporting passengers for
hire, excluding [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.
(f) In this section:
(1) "Child passenger safety seat system" means an
infant or child passenger restraint system that meets the federal
standards for crash-tested restraint systems as set by the National
Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
(2) "Passenger vehicle" means a passenger car, light
truck, sport utility vehicle, passenger van designed to transport
15 or fewer passengers, including the driver, truck, or truck
tractor.
(3) "Safety belt" means a lap belt and any shoulder
straps included as original equipment on or added to a vehicle.
(4) "Secured," in connection with use of a safety
belt, means using the lap belt and any shoulder straps according to
the instructions of:
(A) the manufacturer of the vehicle, if the
safety belt is original equipment; or
(B) the manufacturer of the safety belt, if the
safety belt has been added to the vehicle.