By Longoria                                           H.B. No. 3105
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the disposition of a child who engages in delinquent
 1-3     conduct under certain circumstances.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 54.042(a), Family Code, is amended to
 1-6     read as follows:
 1-7           (a)  A juvenile court, in a disposition hearing under Section
 1-8     54.04, shall:
 1-9                 (1)  order the Department of Public Safety to suspend a
1-10     child's driver's license or permit, or if the child does not have a
1-11     license or permit, to deny the issuance of a license or permit to
1-12     the child if:
1-13                       (A)  the court finds that the child has engaged
1-14     in conduct that violates a law of this state enumerated in Section
1-15     521.342(a), Transportation Code; or
1-16                       (B)  the court finds that:
1-17                             (i)  the child has engaged in delinquent
1-18     conduct; and
1-19                             (ii)  at the time of engaging in the
1-20     delinquent conduct the child engaged in conduct described by
1-21     Section 51.03(b)(2); or
1-22                 (2)  notify the Department of Public Safety of the
1-23     adjudication, if the court finds that the child has engaged in
1-24     conduct that violates a law of this state enumerated in Section
 2-1     521.372(a), Transportation Code.
 2-2           SECTION 2.  (a)  The change in law made by this Act applies
 2-3     only to conduct that occurs on or after the effective date of this
 2-4     Act.  Conduct violating a penal law of the state occurs on or after
 2-5     the effective date of this Act if every element of the violation
 2-6     occurs on or after that date.
 2-7           (b)  Conduct that occurs before the effective date of this
 2-8     Act is covered by the law in effect at the time the conduct
 2-9     occurred, and the former law is continued in effect for that
2-10     purpose.
2-11           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
2-12           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
2-13     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-14     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-15     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-16     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.