By: Shelley S.B. No. 1053 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to the punishment provided for failure to stop and render 1-2 aid following an accident involving death or personal injuries. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Subsection (b), Section 38, Uniform Act 1-5 Regulating Traffic on Highways (Article 6701d, Vernon's Texas Civil 1-6 Statutes), is amended to read as follows: 1-7 (b) Any person failing to stop or to comply with said 1-8 requirements under such circumstances shall upon conviction be 1-9 punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary not to exceed five (5) 1-10 years or in jail not exceeding one (1) year or by fine not 1-11 exceeding Five Thousand ($5,000.00) Dollars, or by both such fine 1-12 and imprisonment, unless the accident resulted in the death of any 1-13 person in which event any person failing to stop or to comply with 1-14 said requirements under such circumstances shall upon conviction be 1-15 punished for a felony of the third degree. 1-16 SECTION 2. (a) The change in law made by this Act applies 1-17 only to the punishment of an offense committed on or after the 1-18 effective date of this Act. For purposes of this section, an 1-19 offense is committed before the effective date of this Act if any 1-20 element of the offense occurs before the effective date. 1-21 (b) The punishment of an offense committed before the 1-22 effective date of this Act is covered by the law in effect when the 1-23 offense was committed, and the former law is continued in effect 2-1 for this purpose. 2-2 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993. 2-3 SECTION 4. 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.