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.