By Uher H.B. No. 1946
75R6603 JD-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the eligibility of a person for the mandatory deferral
1-3 of a speeding offense.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 543.102, Transportation Code, is amended
1-6 to read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 543.102. NOTICE OF RIGHT TO COMPLETE COURSE. The court
1-8 shall advise a person charged with a misdemeanor under this
1-9 subtitle, committed while operating a motor vehicle, of the
1-10 person's right to successfully complete a driving safety course or,
1-11 if the offense was committed while operating a motorcycle, a
1-12 motorcycle operator training course. The right to complete a
1-13 course does not apply to a person charged with a violation of
1-14 Section 545.066, 545.401, 545.421, 550.022, or 550.023, [or] a
1-15 serious traffic violation as defined by Section 522.003, or a
1-16 speeding offense, if the speed at which the person is alleged to
1-17 have driven is 80 miles per hour or faster.
1-18 SECTION 2. (a) In addition to the substantive changes in
1-19 law made by this Act, this Act amends Section 543.102,
1-20 Transportation Code, to conform to the change in the law made by
1-21 Section 1, Chapter 334, Acts of the 74th Legislature, Regular
1-22 Session, 1995, relating to a person's right to complete a
1-23 motorcycle operator training course.
1-24 (b) Section 1, Chapter 334, Acts of the 74th Legislature,
2-1 Regular Session, 1995, is repealed.
2-2 (c) To the extent of any conflict, this Act prevails over
2-3 another Act of the 75th Legislature, Regular Session, 1997,
2-4 relating to nonsubstantive additions to and corrections in enacted
2-5 codes.
2-6 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997. The
2-7 change in law made by this Act applies only to a person's
2-8 eligibility to complete a driving safety course for a speeding
2-9 offense committed on or after September 1, 1997. A person's
2-10 eligibility to complete a driving safety course for a speeding
2-11 offense committed before September 1, 1997, is covered by the law
2-12 in effect when the offense was committed, and the former law is
2-13 continued in effect for that purpose.
2-14 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
2-15 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-16 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-17 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-18 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.