By Jones of Dallas                                     H.B. No. 580
       74R2523 GWK-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to court costs for certain traffic convictions resulting
    1-3  from offenses committed in school crossing zones.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Article 102.014(c), Code of Criminal Procedure,
    1-6  is amended to read as follows:
    1-7        (c)  A person convicted of an offense under the Uniform Act
    1-8  Regulating Traffic on Highways (Article 6701d, Vernon's Texas Civil
    1-9  Statutes), when the offense occurs within a school crossing zone as
   1-10  defined by Section 20L of that Act, shall pay as court costs $25
   1-11  <$20> in addition to other taxable court costs.  A person convicted
   1-12  of an offense under Section 104, Uniform Act Regulating Traffic on
   1-13  Highways (Article 6701d, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), shall pay
   1-14  as court costs $20 in addition to other taxable court costs.  A
   1-15  person convicted of an offense under Section 4.25, Education Code,
   1-16  shall pay as taxable court costs $20 in addition to other taxable
   1-17  court costs.  The additional court costs under this subsection
   1-18  shall be collected in the same manner that other fines and taxable
   1-19  court costs in the case are collected.
   1-20        SECTION 2.  (a)  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-21        (b)  The change in law made by this Act applies only to an
   1-22  offense committed on or after the effective date of this Act.  For
   1-23  purposes of this Act, an offense was committed before the effective
   1-24  date of this Act if any element of the offense occurred before the
    2-1  effective date of this Act.
    2-2        (c)  An offense committed before the effective date of this
    2-3  Act is covered by the law in effect when the offense was committed,
    2-4  and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
    2-5        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-6  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-7  emergency   and   an   imperative   public   necessity   that   the
    2-8  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-9  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.