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	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.