1-1     By:  Zaffirini                                        S.B. No. 1409
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed March 12, 1999; March 15, 1999, read
 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice;
 1-4     April 12, 1999, reported favorably, as amended, by the following
 1-5     vote:  Yeas 7, Nays 0; April 12, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6     COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1                                 By:  West
 1-7           Amend S.B. No. 1409 in SECTION 1 of the bill, on page 1, line
 1-8     22, after the word "level" and before the word "shown", by
 1-9     inserting the words "in Section 49.01, Penal Code".
1-10                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-11                                   AN ACT
1-12     relating to creating a presumption regarding a person's alcohol
1-13     concentration level for purposes of the administrative suspension
1-14     of the person's driver's license.
1-15           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-16           SECTION 1.  Subchapter D, Chapter 524, Transportation Code,
1-17     is amended by adding Section 524.0375 to read as follows:
1-18           Sec. 524.0375.  PRESUMPTION REGARDING ANALYSIS.  For purposes
1-19     of this chapter, it is presumed that at the time of operating a
1-20     motor vehicle in a public place, the person operating the vehicle
1-21     had an alcohol concentration level equal to or higher than the
1-22     level shown by an analysis of breath, blood, or other bodily
1-23     substance taken from the person at or not later than two hours
1-24     after the time of the person's arrest.
1-25           SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies only
1-26     to a driver's license suspension hearing that begins under Chapter
1-27     524, Transportation Code, on or after the effective date of this
1-28     Act.  A driver's license suspension hearing that began under
1-29     Chapter 524, Transportation Code, before the effective date of this
1-30     Act is covered by the law in effect when the hearing began, and the
1-31     former law continues in effect for that purpose.
1-32           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-33     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-34     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-35     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-36     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-37     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-38     passage, and it is so enacted.
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