By Delisi H.B. No. 3434
76R1376 DWS-D
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.