By Moffat, Rusling 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.