74R7244 MLR-D
          By Moffat                                              H.B. No. 712
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the offense of passing a school bus.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 104(c), Uniform Act Regulating Traffic on
    1-5  Highways (Article 6701d, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended
    1-6  to read as follows:
    1-7        (c)  An offense under this section is punishable by a fine of
    1-8  not less than $200 and not more than $500 <$1,000>.
    1-9        SECTION 2.  Section 104(d), Uniform Act Regulating Traffic on
   1-10  Highways (Article 6701d, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended
   1-11  to read as follows:
   1-12        (d)  On conviction of a person of a second or subsequent
   1-13  offense under this section, a justice or municipal <the> court may
   1-14  order that the person's driver's license be suspended for a period
   1-15  of up to six months beginning on the date of conviction.  In this
   1-16  subsection, "driver's license" has the meaning assigned by Section
   1-17  1, Chapter 173, Acts of the 47th Legislature, Regular Session, 1941
   1-18  (Article 6687b, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes).
   1-19        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.  The
   1-20  change in law made by this Act applies only to an offense committed
   1-21  on or after that date.  An offense committed before the effective
   1-22  date of this Act is covered by the law in effect when the offense
   1-23  was committed, and the former law is continued in effect for that
   1-24  purpose.  For purposes of this section, an offense was committed
    2-1  before the effective date of this Act if any element of the offense
    2-2  occurred before that date.
    2-3        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-4  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-5  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-6  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-7  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.