Bill Text: TX HB1020 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the certification of alcohol awareness programs required for minors convicted of or receiving deferred disposition for certain alcohol offenses.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective immediately [HB1020 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB1020-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the certification of alcohol awareness programs required for minors convicted of or receiving deferred disposition for certain alcohol offenses.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective immediately [HB1020 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB1020-Comm_Sub.html
By: Reynolds (Senate Sponsor - Huffman) | H.B. No. 1020 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 6, 2013; | ||
May 7, 2013, read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal | ||
Justice; May 15, 2013, reported favorably by the following vote: | ||
Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 15, 2013, sent to printer.) |
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relating to the certification of alcohol awareness programs | ||
required for minors convicted of or receiving deferred disposition | ||
for certain alcohol offenses. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 106.115(a), Alcoholic Beverage Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) On the placement of a minor on deferred disposition for | ||
an offense under Section 49.02, Penal Code, or under Section | ||
106.02, 106.025, 106.04, 106.041, 106.05, or 106.07, the court | ||
shall require the defendant to attend an alcohol awareness program | ||
approved by the Department of State Health Services under this | ||
section or a drug and alcohol driving awareness program approved by | ||
the Texas Education Agency [ |
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those sections, the court, in addition to assessing a fine as | ||
provided by those sections, shall require a defendant who has not | ||
been previously convicted of an offense under one of those sections | ||
to attend an [ |
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driving awareness program described by this subsection. If the | ||
defendant has been previously convicted once or more of an offense | ||
under one or more of those sections, the court may require the | ||
defendant to attend an [ |
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alcohol driving awareness program described by this subsection. If | ||
the defendant is younger than 18 years of age, the court may require | ||
the parent or guardian of the defendant to attend the program with | ||
the defendant. The Department of State Health Services [ |
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(1) is responsible for the administration of the | ||
certification of approved alcohol awareness programs; | ||
(2) may charge a nonrefundable application fee for: | ||
(A) initial certification of the approval; or | ||
(B) renewal of the certification; | ||
(3) shall adopt rules regarding alcohol awareness | ||
programs approved under this section; and | ||
(4) shall monitor, coordinate, and provide training to | ||
a person who provides an alcohol awareness program. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2013. | ||
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