By Zaffirini                                          S.B. No. 1409
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to creating a presumption regarding a person's alcohol
 1-3     concentration level for purposes of the administrative suspension
 1-4     of the person's driver's license.
 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-6           SECTION 1.  Subchapter D, Chapter 524, Transportation Code,
 1-7     is amended by adding Section 524.0375 to read as follows:
 1-8           Sec. 524.0375.  PRESUMPTION REGARDING ANALYSIS.  For purposes
 1-9     of this chapter, it is presumed that at the time of operating a
1-10     motor vehicle in a public place, the person operating the vehicle
1-11     had an alcohol concentration level equal to or higher than the
1-12     level shown by an analysis of breath, blood, or other bodily
1-13     substance taken from the person at or not later than two hours
1-14     after the time of the person's arrest.
1-15           SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies only
1-16     to a driver's license suspension hearing that begins under Chapter
1-17     524, Transportation Code, on or after the effective date of this
1-18     Act.  A driver's license suspension hearing that began under
1-19     Chapter 524, Transportation Code, before the effective date of this
1-20     Act is covered by the law in effect when the hearing began, and the
1-21     former law continues in effect for that purpose.
1-22           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-23     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-24     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-1     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-2     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
 2-3     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
 2-4     passage, and it is so enacted.