By West H.B. No. 257
75R2314 JD-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the penalties for certain intoxication offenses.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. (a) Section 49.04(b), Penal Code, is amended to
1-5 read as follows:
1-6 (b) Except as provided by [Subsection (c) and] Section
1-7 49.09, an offense under this section is a Class B misdemeanor, with
1-8 a minimum term of confinement of 30 days [72 hours].
1-9 (b) Section 49.04(c), Penal Code, is repealed.
1-10 SECTION 2. Section 49.05(b), Penal Code, is amended to read
1-11 as follows:
1-12 (b) Except as provided by Section 49.09, an offense under
1-13 this section is a Class B misdemeanor, with a minimum term of
1-14 confinement of 30 days [72 hours].
1-15 SECTION 3. Section 49.06(b), Penal Code, is amended to read
1-16 as follows:
1-17 (b) Except as provided by Section 49.09, an offense under
1-18 this section is a Class B misdemeanor, with a minimum term of
1-19 confinement of 30 days [72 hours].
1-20 SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997. The
1-21 changes in law made by this Act apply only to an offense committed
1-22 on or after September 1, 1997. An offense committed before
1-23 September 1, 1997, is covered by the law in effect when the offense
1-24 was committed, and the former law is continued in effect for that
2-1 purpose. For purposes of this section, an offense was committed
2-2 before September 1, 1997, if any element of the offense occurred
2-3 before that date.
2-4 SECTION 5. The importance of this legislation and the
2-5 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-6 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-7 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-8 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.