By McClendon                                          H.B. No. 3261
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the eligibility of a defendant charged with certain
 1-3     intoxication offenses to participate in a pretrial intervention
 1-4     program.
 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-6           SECTION 1.  Section 76.011, Government Code, is amended by
 1-7     adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
 1-8           (c)  A defendant charged with an offense under Section 49.04,
 1-9     49.07, or 49.08, Penal Code, may not participate in a pretrial
1-10     intervention program.
1-11           SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies only
1-12     to a person charged with an offense under Section 49.04, 49.07, or
1-13     49.08, Penal Code, committed on or after the effective date of this
1-14     Act.  A person charged with an offense under those sections
1-15     committed before the effective date of this Act is covered by the
1-16     law in effect when the offense was committed, and the former law is
1-17     continued in effect for that purpose.  For purposes of this
1-18     section, an offense was committed before the effective date of this
1-19     Act if any element of the offense occurred before that date.
1-20           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-21           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-22     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-23     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-24     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-1     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.