Amend CSHB 2702 (Senate committee printing) by adding the
following appropriately numbered SECTION to Article 2 of the bill
and renumbering subsequent SECTIONS as appropriate:
SECTION __. (a) Article 45.051(f), Code of Criminal
Procedure, is amended to read as follows:
(f) This article does not apply to:
(1) an offense to which Section 542.404 or 729.004(b),
Transportation Code, applies; or
(2) a violation of a state law or local ordinance
relating to motor vehicle control, other than a parking violation,
[traffic offense] committed by a person who holds a commercial
driver's license.
(b) The change in law made by this section applies only to an
offense committed on or after September 1, 2005.
(c) An offense committed before September 1, 2005, is
covered by the law in effect when the offense was committed, and the
former law is continued in effect for that purpose. For purposes of
this section, an offense was committed before September 1, 2005, if
any element of the offense was committed before that date.