Bill Text: TX HB337 | 2011-2012 | 82nd 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) 2011-02-15 - Referred to Transportation [HB337 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB337-Introduced.html
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| By: Johnson | H.B. No. 337 | |
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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 201.622 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 201.622. 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. | ||
| (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, 2011. | ||
