Bill Text: TX HB2575 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to increasing awareness of the danger of leaving a child in a motor vehicle.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-04-07 - Withdrawn from schedule [HB2575 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB2575-Introduced.html
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| By: Johnson | H.B. No. 2575 | |
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| relating to increasing awareness of the danger of leaving a child in | ||
| a motor vehicle. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter H, Chapter 201, Transportation Code, | ||
| is amended by adding Section 201.623 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 201.623. UNATTENDED CHILDREN IN MOTOR VEHICLES | ||
| AWARENESS. (a) Using existing resources, the department shall | ||
| establish a plan to increase public awareness of the danger of | ||
| leaving a child unattended in a closed motor vehicle during hot or | ||
| sunny weather through an existing system of dynamic message signs | ||
| to be activated on days when the outdoor temperature exceeds 85 | ||
| degrees Fahrenheit. | ||
| (b) The department may confer and cooperate with the | ||
| Department of Family and Protective Services and the Department of | ||
| Public Safety of the State of Texas to establish the plan under | ||
| Subsection (a). | ||
| (c) The commission shall adopt rules to implement this | ||
| section. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. | ||
