By Driver                                              H.B. No. 318
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the penalty for a false application for a driver's
 1-3     license or a certificate issued by the Department of Public Safety.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 521.454(c), Transportation Code, is
 1-6     amended to read as follows:
 1-7           (c)  An offense under this section is a Class A [C]
 1-8     misdemeanor[, except that the offense is a Class B misdemeanor if
 1-9     the matter, information, or statement falsely sworn to or affirmed
1-10     relates to the cancellation, suspension, revocation, or denial of
1-11     the declarant's license].
1-12           SECTION 2.  (a)  The change in law made by this Act applies
1-13     only to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this
1-14     Act.  For the purposes of this section, an offense is committed
1-15     before the effective date of this Act if any element of the offense
1-16     occurs before that date.
1-17           (b)  An offense committed before the effective date of this
1-18     Act is governed by the law in effect when the offense was
1-19     committed, and the former law is continued in effect for that
1-20     purpose.
1-21           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-22           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-23     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-24     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-1     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-2     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.