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House Bill 5183 |
House Author: Guillen |
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Effective: 6-18-23 |
Senate Sponsor: Johnson |
House Bill 5183 amends the Alcoholic Beverage Code, Code of Criminal Procedure, Family Code, and Transportation Code to revise provisions relating to the approval, monitoring, and administration of equivalent educational programs for persons whose driver's license is suspended following conviction of certain drug offenses. The bill does the following:
· requires the Texas Department of Criminal Justice to approve, monitor, and administer the program in a substance abuse treatment facility or substance abuse felony punishment facility;
· removes the duty of the Department of State Health Services to monitor, coordinate, and provide training to residential treatment facilities providing such equivalent education and to administer the program in such residential treatment facilities; and
· requires the Health and Human Services Commission instead to monitor such equivalent education and to administer the program in a chemical dependency treatment facility.