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House Bill 1623 |
House Author: Phillips |
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Effective: 9-1-07 |
Senate Sponsor: Carona |
House Bill 1623 amends provisions of the Transportation Code, Parks and Wildlife Code, Local Government Code, and Health and Safety Code relating to offenses, fees, and penalties imposed for operating a motor vehicle or vessel in violation of the law. The bill specifies circumstances under which a court may dismiss a charge for a violation of certain laws governing registration of vehicles, driver's licenses and certificates, vehicle equipment, compulsory inspection of vehicles, and water safety. It provides that if it is shown on the trial of an offense relating to driving with an invalid license that the license of a person has previously been suspended as the result of an offense involving the operation of a motor vehicle while intoxicated, then the offense is a Class B misdemeanor. The bill limits the amount of a civil, administrative, or late payment penalty imposed to enforce compliance with the instructions of a traffic-control signal and prescribes how this revenue is to be shared with the state if the penalty is issued in connection with a photographic traffic signal enforcement system. The bill creates the regional trauma account in the general revenue fund composed of money deposited to the credit of the account under the photographic traffic signal enforcement system law and requires the executive commissioner of the Health and Human Services Commission to use the money to fund uncompensated care of certain designated trauma facilities and county and regional emergency medical services in accordance with prescribed distributions from the account. The bill requires the commissioner to adopt rules to implement the regional emergency medical services provisions not later than December 1, 2007.