By Moffat, Rusling, et al.                             H.B. No. 710
       74R2084 DWS-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to completion of a driving safety course in connection
    1-3  with certain motor vehicle offenses.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Article 45.54(2), Code of Criminal Procedure, is
    1-6  amended to read as follows:
    1-7        (2)  During the deferral period, the justice shall require
    1-8  the defendant to successfully complete a Central Education
    1-9  Agency-approved driving safety course, if the offense alleged is an
   1-10  offense involving the operation of a motor vehicle, other than a
   1-11  commercial motor vehicle, as defined in Subdivision (6), Section 3,
   1-12  Texas Commercial Driver's License Act (Article 6687b-2, Revised
   1-13  Statutes), and the defendant<:>
   1-14              <(A)  has completed an approved driving safety course
   1-15  within the preceding 12 months; or>
   1-16              <(B)>  is a first-time offender who elects deferred
   1-17  adjudication.
   1-18        SECTION 2.  The changes in law made by this Act apply only to
   1-19  a deferral ordered on or after the effective date of this Act.  A
   1-20  deferral ordered before the effective date of this Act is covered
   1-21  by the law in effect when the deferral was ordered, and the former
   1-22  law is continued in effect for that purpose.
   1-23        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-24        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-1  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-2  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-3  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-4  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
    2-5                       COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1
    2-6        Amend House Bill 710 as follows:
    2-7        (1)  On page 1, line 13, after the word "Statutes)", strike
    2-8  the remainder of the line and substitute "."
    2-9        (2)  On page 1, delete lines 16 and 17.
   2-10        (3)  On page 1, line 7, strike "shall" and insert "may"
   2-11                                                               Farrar