By:  West                                             S.B. No. 1567
         99S0714/1                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                       AN ACT
 1-1     relating to fees charged for misdemeanor traffic violations
 1-2     disposed by driving safety courses.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Subsection (a), Section 543.106, Transportation
 1-5     Code, is amended to read as follows:
 1-6           (a)  The court may require a person requesting a driving
 1-7     safety course under Section 543.103 to pay a fee set by the court
 1-8     at an amount of not more than $10, including any other fee
 1-9     authorized by statute or municipal ordinance, to cover the cost of
1-10     administering this subchapter.  The court may require a person
1-11     requesting a driving safety course under Section 543.104 to pay a
1-12     fee set by the court at an amount of not more than $50, including
1-13     any other fee authorized by statute or municipal ordinance, to
1-14     cover the cost of administering this subchapter.
1-15           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-16     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-17     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-18     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-19     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-20     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-21     passage, and it is so enacted.