By: Raymond H.B. No. 1400 73R5414 JD-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the suspension of the driver's license of certain 1-3 persons younger than 21 years of age. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 22, Chapter 173, Acts of the 47th 1-6 Legislature, Regular Session, 1941 (Article 6687b, Vernon's Texas 1-7 Civil Statutes), is amended by adding Subsection (c) to read as 1-8 follows: 1-9 (c)(1) The Director is authorized to suspend the driver's 1-10 license of a person who is younger than 21 years of age, is 1-11 arrested for an offense under Article 6701l-1, Revised Statutes, 1-12 and its subsequent amendments or Section 19.05(a)(2), Penal Code, 1-13 and its subsequent amendments and submits to the taking of a 1-14 specimen of breath or blood, if an analysis of the specimen shows 1-15 the person had an alcohol concentration of 0.07 or more. 1-16 (2) The period of suspension under this subsection is 1-17 one (1) year. 1-18 (3) In this subsection "alcohol concentration" has the 1-19 meaning assigned by Subsection (a), Article 6701l-1, Revised 1-20 Statutes, and its subsequent amendments. 1-21 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993. The 1-22 change in law made by this Act applies only to a person who is 1-23 arrested on or after the effective date of this Act. A person 1-24 arrested before the effective date of this Act is covered by the 2-1 law in effect when the arrest occurred, and the former law is 2-2 continued in effect for that purpose. 2-3 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-4 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-5 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-6 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-7 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.