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.