By Isett H.B. No. 3100 Line and page numbers may not match official copy. Bill not drafted by TLC or Senate E&E. A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the penalty for failure to comply with certain traffic 1-3 control devices. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 544.007, Transportation Code, is amended 1-6 by adding Subsection (i) to read as follows: 1-7 (i) An offense under Subsection (d) is a Class C 1-8 misdemeanor. The court may order that the driver's license of a 1-9 person be suspended if the person is convicted of a second or 1-10 subsequent offense under Subsection (d) committed before the second 1-11 anniversary of the date of the most recent previous offense of 1-12 which the person was convicted. The period of suspension is: 1-13 (1) for a second offense, 30 days; or 1-14 (2) for a subsequent offense, 30 days plus a number of 1-15 days computed by multiplying 30 days by the number of subsequent 1-16 offenses. 1-17 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2001. 1-18 SECTION 3. (a) The change in law made by this Act applies 1-19 only to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this 1-20 Act. For the purposes of this section, an offense is committed 1-21 before the effective date of this Act if any element of the offense 1-22 occurs before that date. 1-23 (b) An offense committed before the effective date of this 2-1 Act is governed by the law in effect when the offense was 2-2 committed, and the former law is continued in effect for that 2-3 purpose.