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1	1	H.B. No. 2012
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4	4	AN ACT
5	5	relating to the criminal consequences of operating without a valid
6	6	driver's license a motor vehicle for which financial responsibility
7	7	is not established.
8	8	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
9	9	SECTION 1. This Act shall be known as Eric's Law.
10	10	SECTION 2. Section 521.457, Transportation Code, is amended
11	11	by amending Subsections (e) and (f) and adding Subsection (f-2) to
12	12	read as follows:
13	13	(e) Except as provided by Subsections (f), [and] (f-1), and
14	14	(f-2), an offense under this section is a Class C misdemeanor.
15	15	(f) An offense under this section is a Class B misdemeanor
16	16	if [If] it is shown on the trial of the [an] offense [under this
17	17	section] that the person:
18	18	(1) has previously been convicted of an offense under
19	19	this section or an offense under Section 601.371(a), as that law
20	20	existed before September 1, 2003; or
21	21	(2) at the time of the offense, was operating the motor
22	22	vehicle in violation of Section 601.191 [, the offense is a Class B
23	23	misdemeanor].
24	24	(f-2) An offense under this section is a Class A misdemeanor
25	25	if it is shown on the trial of the offense that at the time of the
26	26	offense the person was operating the motor vehicle in violation of
27	27	Section 601.191 and caused or was at fault in a motor vehicle
28	28	accident that resulted in serious bodily injury to or the death of
29	29	another person.
30	30	SECTION 3. The change in law made by this Act applies only
31	31	to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this Act.
32	32	An offense committed before the effective date of this Act is
33	33	governed by the law in effect when the offense was committed, and
34	34	the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. For the
35	35	purposes of this section, an offense was committed before the
36	36	effective date of this Act if any element of the offense was
37	37	committed before that date.
38	38	SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2009.
39	39	______________________________ ______________________________
40	40	President of the Senate Speaker of the House
41	41	I certify that H.B. No. 2012 was passed by the House on May
42	42	15, 2009, by the following vote: Yeas 133, Nays 1, 1 present, not
43	43	voting; that the House refused to concur in Senate amendments to
44	44	H.B. No. 2012 on May 29, 2009, and requested the appointment of a
45	45	conference committee to consider the differences between the two
46	46	houses; and that the House adopted the conference committee report
47	47	on H.B. No. 2012 on May 31, 2009, by the following vote: Yeas 135,
48	48	Nays 2, 2 present, not voting.
49	49	______________________________
50	50	Chief Clerk of the House
51	51	I certify that H.B. No. 2012 was passed by the Senate, with
52	52	amendments, on May 27, 2009, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays
53	53	0; at the request of the House, the Senate appointed a conference
54	54	committee to consider the differences between the two houses; and
55	55	that the Senate adopted the conference committee report on H.B. No.
56	56	2012 on May 31, 2009, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 1.
57	57	______________________________
58	58	Secretary of the Senate
59	59	APPROVED: __________________
60	60	Date
61	61	__________________
62	62	Governor