By Solomons H.B. No. 677 75R9367 JMC-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the punishment for certain persons who sell, 1-3 manufacture, distribute, or possess a document that is deceptively 1-4 similar to a driver's license. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Section 521.453, Transportation Code, is amended 1-7 by adding Subsection (g) to read as follows: 1-8 (g) In addition to the punishment provided by Subsection 1-9 (d), a court may order a person younger than 21 years of age who 1-10 commits a first offense under this section to perform eight hours 1-11 of community service if the court is located in a municipality or 1-12 county that has established a community service program. If the 1-13 person ordered to perform community service under this subsection 1-14 is younger than 17 years of age, the community service shall be 1-15 performed as if ordered by a juvenile court under Section 1-16 54.044(a), Family Code, as a condition of probation under Section 1-17 54.04(d), Family Code. 1-18 SECTION 2. Section 54.044, Family Code, is amended by adding 1-19 Subsection (i) to read as follows: 1-20 (i) In a disposition hearing under Section 54.04 in which 1-21 the court finds that a child engaged in behavior violating Section 1-22 521.453, Transportation Code, as a first offense, the court may, in 1-23 addition to any other order authorized under this title, order the 1-24 child to perform eight hours of community service as a condition of 2-1 probation under Section 54.04(d) if the court is located in a 2-2 municipality or county that has established a community service 2-3 program. 2-4 SECTION 3. (a) The change in law made by this Act applies 2-5 only to an offense committed or, for purposes of Title 3, Family 2-6 Code, to conduct that occurs on or after the effective date of this 2-7 Act. For purposes of this section, an offense is committed on or 2-8 after the effective date of this Act if every element of the 2-9 offense occurs on or after that date and conduct violating a penal 2-10 law of the state occurs on or after the effective date of this Act 2-11 if every element of the violation occurs on or after that date. 2-12 (b) An offense committed before the effective date of this 2-13 Act is covered by the law in effect when the offense was committed, 2-14 and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. 2-15 Conduct that occurs before the effective date of this Act is 2-16 covered by the law in effect at the time the conduct occurred, and 2-17 the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. 2-18 SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997. 2-19 SECTION 5. The importance of this legislation and the 2-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-23 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.