1-1 By: Solomons (Senate Sponsor - Haywood) H.B. No. 677 1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 11, 1997; 1-3 April 14, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on 1-4 Criminal Justice; May 18, 1997, reported adversely, with favorable 1-5 Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; 1-6 May 18, 1997, sent to printer.) 1-7 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 677 By: Nelson 1-8 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-9 AN ACT 1-10 relating to the punishment for certain persons who sell, 1-11 manufacture, distribute, or possess a document that is deceptively 1-12 similar to a driver's license. 1-13 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-14 SECTION 1. Section 521.453, Transportation Code, is amended 1-15 by adding Subsections (h) and (i) to read as follows: 1-16 (h) In addition to the punishment provided by Subsection 1-17 (d), a court, if the court is located in a municipality or county 1-18 that has established a community service program, may order a 1-19 person younger than 21 years of age who commits an offense under 1-20 this section to perform eight hours of community service unless the 1-21 person is shown to have previously committed an offense under this 1-22 section, in which case the court may order the person to perform 12 1-23 hours of community service. 1-24 (i) If the person ordered to perform community service under 1-25 Subsection (h) is younger than 17 years of age, the community 1-26 service shall be performed as if ordered by a juvenile court under 1-27 Section 54.044(a), Family Code, as a condition of probation under 1-28 Section 54.04(d), Family Code. 1-29 SECTION 2. Section 54.044, Family Code, is amended by adding 1-30 Subsection (i) to read as follows: 1-31 (i) In a disposition hearing under Section 54.04 in which 1-32 the court finds that a child engaged in conduct violating Section 1-33 521.453, Transportation Code, the court, in addition to any other 1-34 order authorized under this title and if the court is located in a 1-35 municipality or county that has established a community service 1-36 program, may order the child to perform eight hours of community 1-37 service as a condition of probation under Section 54.04(d) unless 1-38 the child is shown to have previously engaged in conduct violating 1-39 Section 521.453, Transportation Code, in which case the court may 1-40 order the child to perform 12 hours of community service. 1-41 SECTION 3. (a) The change in law made by this Act applies 1-42 only to an offense committed or, for purposes of Title 3, Family 1-43 Code, to conduct that occurs on or after the effective date of this 1-44 Act. For purposes of this section, an offense is committed on or 1-45 after the effective date of this Act if every element of the 1-46 offense occurs on or after that date and conduct violating a penal 1-47 law of the state occurs on or after the effective date of this Act 1-48 if every element of the violation occurs on or after that date. 1-49 (b) An offense committed before the effective date of this 1-50 Act is covered by the law in effect when the offense was committed, 1-51 and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. 1-52 Conduct that occurs before the effective date of this Act is 1-53 covered by the law in effect at the time the conduct occurred, and 1-54 the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. 1-55 SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997. 1-56 SECTION 5. The importance of this legislation and the 1-57 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-58 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-59 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-60 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended. 1-61 * * * * *