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 Subsections (h) and (i) to read as follows:
1-8 (h) In addition to the punishment provided by Subsection
1-9 (d), a court, if the court is located in a municipality or county
1-10 that has established a community service program, may order a
1-11 person younger than 21 years of age who commits an offense under
1-12 this section to perform eight hours of community service unless the
1-13 person is shown to have previously committed an offense under this
1-14 section, in which case the court may order the person to perform 12
1-15 hours of community service.
1-16 (i) If the person ordered to perform community service under
1-17 Subsection (h) is younger than 17 years of age, the community
1-18 service shall be performed as if ordered by a juvenile court under
1-19 Section 54.044(a), Family Code, as a condition of probation under
1-20 Section 54.04(d), Family Code.
1-21 SECTION 2. Section 54.044, Family Code, is amended by adding
1-22 Subsection (i) to read as follows:
1-23 (i) In a disposition hearing under Section 54.04 in which
1-24 the court finds that a child engaged in conduct violating Section
2-1 521.453, Transportation Code, the court, in addition to any other
2-2 order authorized under this title and if the court is located in a
2-3 municipality or county that has established a community service
2-4 program, may order the child to perform eight hours of community
2-5 service as a condition of probation under Section 54.04(d) unless
2-6 the child is shown to have previously engaged in conduct violating
2-7 Section 521.453, Transportation Code, in which case the court may
2-8 order the child to perform 12 hours of community service.
2-9 SECTION 3. (a) The change in law made by this Act applies
2-10 only to an offense committed or, for purposes of Title 3, Family
2-11 Code, to conduct that occurs on or after the effective date of this
2-12 Act. For purposes of this section, an offense is committed on or
2-13 after the effective date of this Act if every element of the
2-14 offense occurs on or after that date and conduct violating a penal
2-15 law of the state occurs on or after the effective date of this Act
2-16 if every element of the violation occurs on or after that date.
2-17 (b) An offense committed before the effective date of this
2-18 Act is covered by the law in effect when the offense was committed,
2-19 and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
2-20 Conduct that occurs before the effective date of this Act is
2-21 covered by the law in effect at the time the conduct occurred, and
2-22 the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
2-23 SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
2-24 SECTION 5. The importance of this legislation and the
2-25 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-26 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-27 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
3-1 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
_______________________________ _______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 677 was passed by the House on April
10, 1997, by a non-record vote; and that the House concurred in
Senate amendments to H.B. No. 677 on May 29, 1997, by a non-record
vote.
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Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 677 was passed by the Senate, with
amendments, on May 26, 1997, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays
0.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: _____________________
Date
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Governor