By:  Oakley                                            H.B. No. 468
       73R2333 JD-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the reporting of certain traffic convictions to the
    1-3  Department of Public Safety.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 152, Uniform Act Regulating Traffic on
    1-6  Highways (Article 6701d, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended
    1-7  by adding Subsection (g) to read as follows:
    1-8        (g)  Subsection (b) of this section does not apply to a
    1-9  conviction or forfeiture of bail for an offense under Section
   1-10  166(a) of this Act if the complaint or notice to appear specifies
   1-11  the speed at which the defendant is alleged to have driven a motor
   1-12  vehicle is less than 70 miles per hour and the maximum prima facie
   1-13  speed limit applicable within the district or at the location is at
   1-14  least 55 miles per hour.
   1-15        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.  The
   1-16  changes in law made by this Act apply only to offenses committed on
   1-17  or after the effective date of this Act.  An offense committed
   1-18  before the effective date of this Act is covered by the law in
   1-19  effect when the offense was committed, and that law is continued in
   1-20  effect for that purpose.  For purposes of this section, an offense
   1-21  was committed before the effective date of this Act if any element
   1-22  of the offense occurred before the effective date.
   1-23        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-24  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-1  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-2  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-3  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.