By Dear                                                H.B. No. 228
       74R764 PAM-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the penalty for certain violations of the law relating
    1-3  to automotive wrecking and salvage yards in certain counties.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Sections 7(a) and (b), Chapter 953, Acts of the
    1-6  70th Legislature, Regular Session, 1987 (Article 2372dd-1, Vernon's
    1-7  Texas Civil Statutes), are amended to read as follows:
    1-8        (a)  A person who knowingly or intentionally violates Section
    1-9  3 or 3A of this Act commits an offense.  An offense under this
   1-10  subsection is a <Class C> misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not
   1-11  less than $100 and not more than $500.
   1-12        (b)  If a county ordinance adopted under Section 5 of this
   1-13  Act defines an offense for a violation of the ordinance, the
   1-14  offense is a <Class C> misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not less
   1-15  than $100 and not more than $500.
   1-16        SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies only
   1-17  to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this Act.
   1-18  An offense committed before the effective date of this Act is
   1-19  covered by the law in effect when the offense was committed, and
   1-20  the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
   1-21        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-22  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-23  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-24  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-1  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.