By Keffer                                       H.B. No. 2047

      75R7181 JD-D                           

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the definition of motor vehicle for purposes of certain

 1-3     intoxication and alcoholic beverage offenses.

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

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 49.01(3), Penal Code, is amended to read

 1-6     as follows:

 1-7                 (3)  "Motor vehicle" means a self-propelled vehicle

 1-8     designed for use on a public highway [has the meaning assigned by

 1-9     Section 32.34(a)].

1-10           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.  The

1-11     change in law made by this Act applies only to an offense committed

1-12     on or after September 1, 1997.  An offense committed before

1-13     September 1, 1997, is covered by the law in effect when the offense

1-14     was committed, and the former law is continued in effect for that

1-15     purpose.  For purposes of this section, an offense was committed

1-16     before September 1, 1997, if any element of the offense occurred

1-17     before that date.

1-18           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-19     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-20     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-21     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-22     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.