By: Solis H.B. No. 2702
73R5219 JD-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the breath alcohol testing program.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Article 102.016, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
1-5 amended by amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsections (k) and
1-6 (l) to read as follows:
1-7 (a) A person convicted of an offense under Article 6701l1-1,
1-8 Revised Statutes, Section 19.05(a)(2), Penal Code, the Texas
1-9 Commercial Driver's License Act (Article 6687b-2, Revised
1-10 Statutes), or Section 31.097, Parks and Wildlife Code, shall pay as
1-11 court costs $35 <$30>, in addition to other court costs.
1-12 (k) The Department of Public Safety shall:
1-13 (1) review information in driver's license records and
1-14 criminal history records and determine the number of arrests per
1-15 capita that are made in each county of this state for offenses
1-16 specified in Subsection (a) of this article;
1-17 (2) identify those counties in which the number of
1-18 those offenses is greater than the per capita statewide average;
1-19 (3) adopt a system for the implementation,
1-20 administration, and maintenance of the certified breath alcohol
1-21 testing program in counties that utilizes a standard ratio of
1-22 offenses per certified technical supervisor; and
1-23 (4) assign priorities to those counties where the
1-24 number of arrests for offenses specified in Subsection (a) of this
2-1 article exceeds the statewide average.
2-2 (l) The Department of Public Safety shall prepare a report
2-3 of its findings and the work plan adopted by the department for the
2-4 implementation, administration, and maintenance of the certified
2-5 breath alcohol testing program in those counties to which the
2-6 department has assigned priorities under Subsection (k) of this
2-7 article. The department shall submit a copy of the report to the
2-8 comptroller and the Legislative Budget Board before January 1,
2-9 1994. This subsection expires January 1, 1994.
2-10 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
2-11 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-12 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-13 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-14 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-15 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.