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.