Amend HB 1631 (house committee report) by adding the following appropriately numbered SECTION to the bill and renumbering subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:

SECTION ____.  (a) The repeal by this Act of Sections 542.405 and 542.406, Transportation Code, and provisions of Chapter 707, Transportation Code, does not affect the validity of a proceeding initiated or a civil or administrative penalty imposed under those provisions before the effective date of this Act. A proceeding initiated or a civil or administrative penalty imposed under those provisions before the effective date of this Act is governed by the applicable law in effect immediately before the effective date of this Act, and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.

(b)  Notwithstanding any provision of this Act to the contrary, if before the effective date of this Act a local authority had enacted an ordinance to implement a photographic traffic signal enforcement system under Sections 542.405 and 542.406, Transportation Code, or Chapter 707, Transportation Code, and entered into a contract for the administration and enforcement of the system:

(1)  the local authority may continue to operate the system under that ordinance and under the terms of that contract until the expiration date specified in the contract as the contract existed on the effective date of this Act; and

(2)  the photographic traffic signal enforcement system, and any proceeding initiated or civil or administrative penalty imposed after the effective date of this Act are governed by the applicable law in effect immediately before the effective date of this Act, and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.