1-1     By:  Carona                                            S.B. No. 650
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed February 23, 1999; February 24, 1999,
 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice;
 1-4     April 12, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 7,
 1-5     Nays 0; April 12, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to the definition of intoxicated for purposes of certain
 1-9     offenses involving intoxication.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Subdivision (2), Section 49.01, Penal Code, is
1-12     amended to read as follows:
1-13                 (2)  "Intoxicated" means:
1-14                       (A)  not having the normal use of mental or
1-15     physical faculties by reason of the introduction of alcohol, a
1-16     controlled substance, a drug, a dangerous drug, a combination of
1-17     two or more of those substances, or any other substance into the
1-18     body; or
1-19                       (B)  having an alcohol concentration of 0.08
1-20     [0.10] or more.
1-21           SECTION 2.  (a)  The change in law made by this Act applies
1-22     only to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this
1-23     Act.  For purposes of this section, an offense is committed before
1-24     the effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurs
1-25     before that date.
1-26           (b)  An offense committed before the effective date of this
1-27     Act is covered by the law in effect when the offense was committed,
1-28     and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
1-29           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-30           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-31     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-32     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-33     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-34     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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