By: Danburg H.B. No. 577
73R485 JD-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the suspension of the driver's license of a person
1-3 convicted of certain offenses and placed on probation or released
1-4 on mandatory supervision or parole.
1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-6 SECTION 1. Chapter 173, Acts of the 47th Legislature,
1-7 Regular Session, 1941 (Article 6687b, Vernon's Texas Civil
1-8 Statutes), is amended by adding Section 24C to read as follows:
1-9 Sec. 24C. SUSPENSION OF LICENSE OF CERTAIN PROBATIONERS AND
1-10 PAROLEES. (a) In this section:
1-11 (1) "Institutional division," "mandatory supervision,"
1-12 "pardons and paroles division," and "parole" have the meanings
1-13 assigned by Section 2, Article 42.18, Code of Criminal Procedure.
1-14 (2) "Probation" has the meaning assigned by Section 2,
1-15 Article 42.12, Code of Criminal Procedure.
1-16 (b) The driver's license, if any, of a person convicted of
1-17 an offense other than an offense for which any section of this Act
1-18 or Article 6687b-2, Revised Statutes, makes automatic the
1-19 suspension of the driver's license of the person, may be suspended
1-20 by the judge of the court in which the person is convicted if the
1-21 person is:
1-22 (1) convicted of an offense under the laws of this
1-23 state for which the punishment includes confinement in jail, a
1-24 community correctional facility, or the institutional division; and
2-1 (2) placed on probation or released on mandatory
2-2 supervision or parole.
2-3 (c) The period of suspension under this section is for:
2-4 (1) the specified period during which the imposition
2-5 of sentence is suspended; or
2-6 (2) the portion of the person's sentence to be served
2-7 under the supervision and control of the pardons and paroles
2-8 division.
2-9 (d) A person whose license is suspended under this section
2-10 is not ineligible to receive an occupational license under Section
2-11 23A of this Act because of the suspension.
2-12 SECTION 2. Section 23(b), Chapter 173, Acts of the 47th
2-13 Legislature, Regular Session, 1941 (Article 6687b, Vernon's Texas
2-14 Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
2-15 (b) Except as provided by Subsection (c) of this section and
2-16 Sections <Section> 24 and 24C of this Act, the Department shall not
2-17 suspend a license for a period of more than one (1) year.
2-18 SECTION 3. (a) This Act takes effect September 1, 1993, and
2-19 applies only to persons convicted of an offense committed on or
2-20 after that date.
2-21 (b) For purposes of this section, an offense was committed
2-22 before September 1, 1993, if any element of the offense occurred
2-23 before that date.
2-24 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
2-25 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-26 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-27 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
3-1 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.