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.