1-1     By:  West                                             S.B. No. 1567
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed March 12, 1999; March 15, 1999, read
 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on Jurisprudence;
 1-4     April 20, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 3,
 1-5     Nays 0; April 20, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to fees charged for misdemeanor traffic violations
 1-9     disposed by driving safety courses.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Subsection (a), Section 543.106, Transportation
1-12     Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-13           (a)  The court may require a person requesting a driving
1-14     safety course under Section 543.103 to pay a fee set by the court
1-15     at an amount of not more than $10, including any other fee
1-16     authorized by statute or municipal ordinance, to cover the cost of
1-17     administering this subchapter.  The court may require a person
1-18     requesting a driving safety course under Section 543.104 to pay a
1-19     fee set by the court at an amount of not more than $50, including
1-20     any other fee authorized by statute or municipal ordinance, to
1-21     cover the cost of administering this subchapter.
1-22           SECTION 2.  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
1-25     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-26     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-27     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-28     passage, and it is so enacted.
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