By: Munoz H.B. No. 2478 73R6722 DWS-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to removal of a requirement of completion of a defensive 1-3 driving course during a period of deferred adjudication. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Article 45.54(2), Code of Criminal Procedure, is 1-6 repealed. 1-7 SECTION 2. This Act applies only to a deferral of 1-8 proceedings ordered on or after the effective date of this Act. A 1-9 deferral of proceedings ordered before the effective date of this 1-10 Act is governed by the law in effect when the deferral was ordered, 1-11 and that law remains in effect for that purpose. 1-12 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-13 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-14 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-15 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-16 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-17 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-18 passage, and it is so enacted.