By:  Junell                                           H.B. No. 1004
       73R4913 JD-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the reinstatement of a driver's license that has been
    1-3  suspended or revoked.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 23, Chapter 173, Acts of the 47th
    1-6  Legislature, Regular Session, 1941 (Article 6687b, Vernon's Texas
    1-7  Civil Statutes), is amended by amending Subsection (c) and adding
    1-8  Subsection (d) to read as follows:
    1-9        (c)  The Department may not reinstate a license suspended
   1-10  under Section 22(b)(16) of this Act until<:>
   1-11              <(1)>  the court that filed the report for which the
   1-12  license was suspended files an additional report on final
   1-13  disposition of the case<; and>
   1-14              <(2)  the person whose license has been suspended pays
   1-15  to the Department a fee of $25 in addition to any other fees
   1-16  required by law>.
   1-17        (d)  The Department may not return a license suspended or
   1-18  revoked under this Act unless the person whose license was
   1-19  suspended or revoked makes application to the Department for
   1-20  reinstatement of the person's license and pays to the Department a
   1-21  reinstatement fee of $50.
   1-22        SECTION 2.  Section 26, Chapter 173, Acts of the 47th
   1-23  Legislature, Regular Session, 1941 (Article 6687b, Vernon's Texas
   1-24  Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
    2-1        Sec. 26.  SURRENDER AND RETURN OF LICENSE.  The <(a)  Except
    2-2  as limited by Subsection (b) of this section, the> Department, upon
    2-3  suspending or revoking a license, shall require that such license
    2-4  shall be surrendered to and be retained by the Department except
    2-5  that at the end of the period of suspension of such license, the
    2-6  license so surrendered shall be returned to the licensee.
    2-7        <(b)  The Department may not return a license or reinstate a
    2-8  privilege to operate a motor vehicle suspended under Section
    2-9  24(a-1) of this Act, unless the person whose license or privilege
   2-10  was suspended makes application to the Department for reinstatement
   2-11  of the person's license or privilege and, in addition to any other
   2-12  fee required by law, pays to the Department a reinstatement fee of
   2-13  Five Dollars ($5.00).>
   2-14        <(c)  Fees paid under this section shall be deposited in the
   2-15  state treasury to the credit of the Operator's and Chauffeur's
   2-16  License Fund and shall be appropriated only to the Department to
   2-17  administer the provisions of this Act.>
   2-18        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993, and
   2-19  applies only to a driver's license that is reinstated on or after
   2-20  that date.
   2-21        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-22  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-23  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-24  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-25  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.