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.