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.