1-1  By:  Hamric (Senate Sponsor - Nelson)                 H.B. No. 2035
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House May 10, 1995;
    1-3  May 11, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal
    1-4  Justice; May 22, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote:
    1-5  Yeas 4, Nays 1; May 22, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-7                                AN ACT
    1-8  relating to suspension or revocation of a driver's license of a
    1-9  juvenile.
   1-10        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-11        SECTION 1.  Section 22(b), Chapter 173, Acts of the 47th
   1-12  Legislature, Regular Session, 1941 (Article 6687b, Vernon's Texas
   1-13  Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
   1-14        (b)  Except for the fifth (5th), eleventh (11th), twelfth
   1-15  (12th), fourteenth (14th), fifteenth (15th), <and> sixteenth
   1-16  (16th), and seventeenth (17th) listed grounds in this subsection,
   1-17  for which the director has authority to revoke a license, the
   1-18  authority to suspend the license of any driver as authorized in
   1-19  this Section is granted the director upon determining that the
   1-20  person:
   1-21              (1)  has operated a motor vehicle on a highway while
   1-22  the person's license was suspended, revoked, canceled,
   1-23  disqualified, or denied;
   1-24              (2)  has been responsible as a driver for any accident
   1-25  resulting in death;
   1-26              (3)  is an habitual reckless or negligent driver of a
   1-27  motor vehicle;
   1-28              (4)  is an habitual violator of the traffic law.
   1-29        The term "habitual violator" as used herein, shall mean any
   1-30  person with four (4) or more convictions arising out of different
   1-31  transactions in a consecutive period of twelve (12) months, or
   1-32  seven (7) or more convictions arising out of different transactions
   1-33  within a period of twenty-four (24) months, such convictions being
   1-34  for moving violations of the traffic laws of any state or its
   1-35  political subdivisions other than a violation of:
   1-36                    (A)  Section 3 or 5, Chapter 42, General Laws,
   1-37  Acts of the 41st Legislature, 2nd Called Session, 1929 (Article
   1-38  6701d-11, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes);
   1-39                    (B)  Chapter 293, Acts of the 53rd Legislature,
   1-40  Regular Session, 1953 (Article 6701d-12, Vernon's Texas Civil
   1-41  Statutes);
   1-42                    (C)  Chapter 608, Acts of the 65th Legislature,
   1-43  Regular Session, 1977 (Article 6701d-12a, Vernon's Texas Civil
   1-44  Statutes);
   1-45                    (D)  Chapter 73, Acts of the 54th Legislature,
   1-46  Regular Session, 1955 (Article 6701d-13, Vernon's Texas Civil
   1-47  Statutes);
   1-48                    (E)  Chapter 212, Acts of the 56th Legislature,
   1-49  Regular Session, 1959 (Article 6701d-14, Vernon's Texas Civil
   1-50  Statutes);
   1-51                    (F)  Chapter 8, Acts of the 62nd Legislature,
   1-52  Regular Session, 1971 (Article 6701d-17, Vernon's Texas Civil
   1-53  Statutes); or
   1-54                    (G)  Section 107C, Uniform Act Regulating Traffic
   1-55  on Highways (Article 6701d, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes);
   1-56              (5)  is incapable of safely driving a motor vehicle;
   1-57              (6)  has permitted an unlawful or fraudulent use of
   1-58  such license;
   1-59              (7)  has committed an offense in another state, which
   1-60  if committed in this State would be grounds for suspension or
   1-61  revocation;
   1-62              (8)  has violated a restriction or endorsement imposed
   1-63  on the use of the license;
   1-64              (9)  has been responsible as a driver for any accident
   1-65  resulting in serious personal injury or serious property damage;
   1-66              (10)  is the holder of a provisional license under
   1-67  Section 11A of this Act and has been convicted of two (2) or more
   1-68  moving violations committed within a period of twelve (12) months;
    2-1              (11)  has not complied with the terms of a citation
    2-2  issued by a jurisdiction that is a member of the Nonresident
    2-3  Violator Compact of 1977  for a violation to which the compact
    2-4  applies;
    2-5              (12)  has a warrant of arrest outstanding, for failure
    2-6  to appear or pay a fine on a complaint, that is issued by a
    2-7  political subdivision that has contracted with the Department under
    2-8  Article 6687c, Revised Statutes;
    2-9              (13)  has committed an offense under Section 186,
   2-10  Uniform Act Regulating Traffic on Highways (Article 6701d, Vernon's
   2-11  Texas Civil Statutes);
   2-12              (14)  has failed to provide medical records or has
   2-13  failed to undergo medical or other examinations as required by a
   2-14  panel of the Medical Advisory Board;
   2-15              (15)  has failed to take, or failed to pass, any
   2-16  examination required by the director under this Act; <or>
   2-17              (16)  has been reported by a court under Section 1c or
   2-18  2(a), Chapter 302, Acts of the 55th Legislature, Regular Session,
   2-19  1957 (Article 6701l-4, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), for failure
   2-20  to appear or default in payment of a fine unless the court has
   2-21  filed an additional report on final disposition of the case; or
   2-22              (17)  has been reported by a justice or municipal court
   2-23  for failure to appear or a default in payment of a fine for a
   2-24  misdemeanor punishable by a fine only, other than an offense
   2-25  covered under Subdivision (16) of this subsection, committed by a
   2-26  person who was under 17 years of age at the time of the alleged
   2-27  offense, unless the court has filed an additional report on final
   2-28  disposition of the case.
   2-29        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   2-30        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-31  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-32  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-33  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-34  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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