By Allen H.B. No. 490
75R2270 DWS-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the falsification of certain licenses and documents
1-3 provided for by law in relation to operation of a motor vehicle.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 37.10(d), Penal Code, is amended to read
1-6 as follows:
1-7 (d) An offense under this section is a felony of the third
1-8 degree if it is shown on the trial of the offense that the
1-9 governmental record was a license, certificate, permit, seal,
1-10 title, or similar document issued by government or a form,
1-11 certificate, or other document described by Section 601.087,
1-12 Transportation Code, unless the actor's intent is to defraud or
1-13 harm another, in which event the offense is a felony of the second
1-14 degree.
1-15 SECTION 2. Section 503.067, Transportation Code, is amended
1-16 to read as follows:
1-17 Sec. 503.067. UNAUTHORIZED REPRODUCTION OF TEMPORARY
1-18 CARDBOARD TAGS. (a) A person other than a dealer may not produce
1-19 or reproduce a buyer's or dealer's temporary cardboard tag.
1-20 (b) A person may not operate a vehicle with knowledge that
1-21 the vehicle displays an unauthorized temporary cardboard tag.
1-22 (c) A person commits an offense if the person violates this
1-23 section. An offense under this section is a felony of the third
1-24 degree.
2-1 SECTION 3. Section 503.094(b), Transportation Code, is
2-2 amended to read as follows:
2-3 (b) Except as provided by Section 503.067, an [An] offense
2-4 under this section is a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not
2-5 less than $50 or more than $5,000.
2-6 SECTION 4. (a) The change in law made by this Act applies
2-7 only to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this
2-8 Act. For the purposes of this section, an offense is committed
2-9 before the effective date of this Act if any element of the offense
2-10 occurs before that date.
2-11 (b) An offense committed before the effective date of this
2-12 Act is governed by the law in effect when the offense was
2-13 committed, and the former law is continued in effect for that
2-14 purpose.
2-15 SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
2-16 SECTION 6. The importance of this legislation and the
2-17 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-18 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-19 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-20 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.