1-1     By:  Driver, Keel (Senate Sponsor - Duncan)            H.B. No. 318
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House April 19, 1999;
 1-3     April 20, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on
 1-4     Criminal Justice; May 14, 1999, reported favorably by the following
 1-5     vote:  Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 14, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to the penalty for a false application for a driver's
 1-9     license or a certificate issued by the Department of Public Safety.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Section 521.454(c), Transportation Code, is
1-12     amended to read as follows:
1-13           (c)  An offense under this section is a Class A [C]
1-14     misdemeanor[, except that the offense is a Class B misdemeanor if
1-15     the matter, information, or statement falsely sworn to or affirmed
1-16     relates to the cancellation, suspension, revocation, or denial of
1-17     the declarant's license].
1-18           SECTION 2.  (a)  The change in law made by this Act applies
1-19     only to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this
1-20     Act.  For the purposes of this section, an offense is committed
1-21     before the effective date of this Act if any element of the offense
1-22     occurs before that date.
1-23           (b)  An offense committed before the effective date of this
1-24     Act is governed by the law in effect when the offense was
1-25     committed, and the former law is continued in effect for that
1-26     purpose.
1-27           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-28           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-29     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-30     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-31     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-32     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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