Section 601.151 - Applicability Of Subchapter(a) This subchapter applies only to a motor vehicle collision in this state that results in bodily injury or death or in damage to the property of one person of at least $1,000. (b) This subchapter does not apply to: (1) an owner or operator who has in effect at the time of the collision a motor vehicle liability insurance policy that covers the motor vehicle involved in the collision ; (2) an operator who is not the owner of the motor vehicle, if a motor vehicle liability insurance policy or bond for the operation of a motor vehicle the person does not own is in effect at the time of the collision ; (3) an owner or operator whose liability for damages resulting from the collision , in the judgment of the department, is covered by another liability insurance policy or bond; (4) an owner or operator, if there was not bodily injury to or damage of the property of a person other than the owner or operator; (5) the owner or operator of a motor vehicle that at the time of the collision was legally parked or legally stopped at a traffic signal; (6) the owner of a motor vehicle that at the time of the collision was being operated without the owner's express or implied permission or was parked by a person who had been operating the vehicle without that permission; or (7) a person qualifying as a self-insurer under Section 601.124 or a person operating a motor vehicle for a self-insurer. Tex. Transp. Code § 601.151
Amended by Acts 2023, Texas Acts of the 88th Leg.- Regular Session, ch. 709,Sec. 73, eff. 9/1/2023.Amended by Acts 2023, Texas Acts of the 88th Leg.- Regular Session, ch. 709,Sec. 72, eff. 9/1/2023.Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.