By: Brown S.B. No. 326 73R1060 JD-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the issuance of a driver's license to certain persons 1-3 convicted of offenses under the Texas Controlled Substances Act. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Article 42.12, Code of Criminal Procedure, is 1-6 amended by adding Section 14A to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 14A. (a) If the court grants probation to a person 1-8 convicted of an offense under Chapter 481, Health and Safety Code, 1-9 the court shall require as a condition of probation that the 1-10 probationer surrender the probationer's driver's license, if any, 1-11 to the court and that, if the probationer had a currently valid 1-12 driver's license or qualifies for issuance of a license while on 1-13 probation, the probationer be issued by the Department of Public 1-14 Safety a new driver's license that identifies the licensee as a 1-15 person serving probation under Chapter 481, Health and Safety Code. 1-16 The condition of probation shall be denoted by making the face of 1-17 the new license a distinguishing color or by including a clearly 1-18 visible colored stripe across the face of the license. The 1-19 probationer is required to carry a driver's license denoting the 1-20 condition of probation until the termination of the period of 1-21 probation. 1-22 (b) In this section, "driver's license" has the meaning 1-23 assigned by Section 1, Chapter 173, Acts of the 47th Legislature, 1-24 Regular Session, 1941 (Article 6687b, Vernon's Texas Civil 2-1 Statutes). 2-2 SECTION 2. Section 8, Article 42.18, Code of Criminal 2-3 Procedure, is amended by adding Subsection (o) to read as follows: 2-4 (o) In addition to other conditions imposed by a parole 2-5 panel under this article, if the prisoner was convicted of an 2-6 offense under Chapter 481, Health and Safety Code, the parole panel 2-7 shall require as a condition of parole or release to mandatory 2-8 supervision, that the person surrender the person's driver's 2-9 license, if any, to the board and that, if the person had a 2-10 currently valid driver's license or qualifies for issuance of a 2-11 license while on parole or under mandatory supervision, the person 2-12 be issued by the Department of Public Safety a new driver's license 2-13 that identifies the licensee as a person on parole or mandatory 2-14 supervision from a sentence for an offense under Chapter 481, 2-15 Health and Safety Code. The condition of parole or release to 2-16 mandatory supervision shall be denoted by making the face of the 2-17 new license a distinguishing color or by including a clearly 2-18 visible colored stripe across the face of the license. The person 2-19 is required to carry a driver's license denoting the condition of 2-20 parole or release on mandatory supervision until the termination of 2-21 the period of parole or mandatory supervision. In this subsection, 2-22 "driver's license" has the meaning assigned by Section 1, Chapter 2-23 173, Acts of the 47th Legislature, Regular Session, 1941 (Article 2-24 6687b, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes). 2-25 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993, and 2-26 applies only to persons placed on probation or released on 2-27 mandatory supervision or parole on or after that date. 3-1 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 3-2 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 3-3 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 3-4 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 3-5 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.