By Talton H.B. No. 3331
75R7806 DWS-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to a driving safety course in connection with certain
1-3 offenses.
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, 550.024,
1-15 or 550.025 or a serious traffic violation as defined by Section
1-16 522.003.
1-17 SECTION 2. (a) In addition to the substantive changes in
1-18 law made by this Act, this Act conforms the Transportation Code to
1-19 changes in law made by Section 1, Chapter 334, Acts of the 74th
1-20 Legislature, Regular Session, 1995.
1-21 (b) To the extent of any conflict, this Act prevails over
1-22 another Act of the 75th Legislature, Regular Session, 1997,
1-23 relating to nonsubstantive additions and corrections in enacted
1-24 codes.
2-1 SECTION 3. (a) The change in law made by this Act applies
2-2 only to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this
2-3 Act. For the purposes of this section, an offense is committed
2-4 before the effective date of this Act if any element of the offense
2-5 occurs before that date.
2-6 (b) An offense committed before the effective date of this
2-7 Act is governed by the law in effect when the offense was
2-8 committed, and the former law is continued in effect for that
2-9 purpose.
2-10 SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
2-11 SECTION 5. The importance of this legislation and the
2-12 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-13 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-14 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-15 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.