By Jones of Dallas                               H.B. No. 915

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to court costs for certain traffic convictions resulting

 1-3     from offenses committed in school crossing zones.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Article 102.014(c), Code of Criminal Procedure,

 1-6     is amended to read as follows:

 1-7           (c)  A person convicted of an offense under Subtitle C, Title

 1-8     7, Transportation Code [the Uniform Act Regulating Traffic on

 1-9     Highways (Article 6701d, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes)], when the

1-10     offense occurs within a school crossing zone as defined by Section

1-11     541.302 [20L] of that code [Act], shall pay as court costs $25

1-12     [$20] in addition to other taxable court costs.  A person convicted

1-13     of an offense under Section 545.066, Transportation Code [104,

1-14     Uniform Act Regulating Traffic on Highways (Article 6701d, Vernon's

1-15     Texas Civil Statutes)], shall pay as court costs $20 in addition to

1-16     other taxable court costs.  A person convicted of an offense under

1-17     Section 25.093 [4.25], Education Code, shall pay as taxable court

1-18     costs $20 in addition to other taxable court costs.  The additional

1-19     court costs under this subsection shall be collected in the same

1-20     manner that other fines and taxable court costs in the case are

1-21     collected.

1-22           SECTION 2.  (a)  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-23           (b)  The change in law made by this Act applies only to an

1-24     offense committed on or after the effective date of this Act.  For

 2-1     purposes of this Act, an offense was committed before the effective

 2-2     date of this Act if any element of the offense occurred before the

 2-3     effective date of this Act.

 2-4           (c)  An offense committed before the effective date of this

 2-5     Act is covered by the law in effect when the offense was committed,

 2-6     and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.

 2-7           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

 2-8     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

 2-9     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

2-10     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

2-11     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.