1-1  By:  Dear (Senate Sponsor - Sibley)                    H.B. No. 228
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House May 12, 1995;
    1-3  May 16, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on State
    1-4  Affairs; May 24, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote:
    1-5  Yeas 7, Nays 1; May 24, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-7                                AN ACT
    1-8  relating to the penalty for certain violations of the law relating
    1-9  to automotive wrecking and salvage yards in certain counties.
   1-10        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-11        SECTION 1.  Sections 7(a) and (b), Chapter 953, Acts of the
   1-12  70th Legislature, Regular Session, 1987 (Article 2372dd-1, Vernon's
   1-13  Texas Civil Statutes), are amended to read as follows:
   1-14        (a)  A person who knowingly or intentionally violates Section
   1-15  3 or 3A of this Act commits an offense.  An offense under this
   1-16  subsection is a <Class C> misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not
   1-17  less than $100 and not more than $500.
   1-18        (b)  If a county ordinance adopted under Section 5 of this
   1-19  Act defines an offense for a violation of the ordinance, the
   1-20  offense is a <Class C> misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not less
   1-21  than $100 and not more than $500.
   1-22        SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies only
   1-23  to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this Act.
   1-24  An offense committed before the effective date of this Act is
   1-25  covered by the law in effect when the offense was committed, and
   1-26  the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
   1-27        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-28  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-29  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-30  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-31  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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