By Delisi                                             H.B. No. 3434
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to offenses requiring automatic suspension of a driver's
 1-3     license.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 521.341, Transportation Code, is amended
 1-6     to read as follows:
 1-7           Sec. 521.341.  REQUIREMENTS FOR AUTOMATIC LICENSE SUSPENSION.
 1-8     Except as provided by Sections 521.344(d)-(i), a license is
 1-9     automatically suspended on final conviction of the license holder
1-10     of:
1-11                 (1)  an offense under Section 19.05, Penal Code,
1-12     committed as a result of the holder's criminally negligent
1-13     operation of a motor vehicle;
1-14                 (2)  an offense under Section 38.04, Penal Code, if the
1-15     person used a motor vehicle in the commission of the offense;
1-16                 (3)  an offense under Section 49.04 or 49.08, Penal
1-17     Code;
1-18                 (4)  an offense under Section 49.07, Penal Code, if the
1-19     person used a motor vehicle in the commission of the offense;
1-20                 (5)  an offense punishable as a felony under the motor
1-21     vehicle laws of this state;
1-22                 (6)  an offense under Section 550.021; [or]
1-23                 (7)  an offense under Section 521.451 or 521.453; or
1-24                 (8)  an offense under Section 545.401.
 2-1           SECTION 2.  (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 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
2-11           SECTION 4.  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.