By: Hegar S.B. No. 1127

(In the Senate - Filed March 5, 2007; March 14, 2007, read first time and referred to Committee on Transportation and Homeland Security; April 19, 2007, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; April 19, 2007, sent to printer.)

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the penalty for certain violations of county traffic regulations.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Subsections (b) and (c), Section 251.161, Transportation Code, are amended to read as follows:

(b) An [Except as provided by Subsections (c) and (d), an] offense under this section is punishable by a fine not to exceed $200 [$50].

(c) If conduct that constitutes an offense under this section also constitutes an offense under any other law, the actor may be prosecuted under this section or the other law [If it is shown on the trial of an offense under this section that the person has previously been convicted one time of the offense, the offense is punishable by a fine not to exceed $200].

SECTION 2. Subsection (d), Section 251.161, Transportation Code, is repealed.

SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2007.

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