By Moffat                                              H.B. No. 712
       74R2085 JD-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the penalty for 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.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.  The
   1-10  change in law made by this Act applies only to an offense committed
   1-11  on or after that date.  An offense committed before the effective
   1-12  date of this Act is covered by the law in effect when the offense
   1-13  was committed, and the former law is continued in effect for that
   1-14  purpose.  For purposes of this section, an offense was committed
   1-15  before the effective date of this Act if any element of the offense
   1-16  occurred before that date.
   1-17        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-18  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-19  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-20  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-21  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.