By Nelson                                               S.B. No. 63
       74R1655 PEP-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to indicating on a driver's license or personal
    1-3  identification card if the holder of the license or card is a
    1-4  person convicted of certain sex offenses.
    1-5        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-6        SECTION 1.  Chapter 42, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
    1-7  amended by adding Article 42.016 to read as follows:
    1-8        Art. 42.016.  REVOCATION OF DRIVER'S LICENSE ON CONVICTION OF
    1-9  CERTAIN SEX OFFENSES.  (a)  On conviction of a defendant for an
   1-10  offense under Section 21.11, 22.011, or 22.021, Penal Code, in
   1-11  which the victim of the offense is a person 17 years of age or
   1-12  younger, the court shall:
   1-13              (1)  order the Department of Public Safety to revoke
   1-14  the defendant's driver's license, if the defendant has a driver's
   1-15  license, or the defendant's personal identification card, if the
   1-16  defendant has a personal identification card;
   1-17              (2)  require the defendant to surrender to the court
   1-18  the defendant's driver's license or personal identification card,
   1-19  if any; and
   1-20              (3)  inform the defendant of the consequence of the
   1-21  conviction as it relates to the issuance of a driver's license or
   1-22  personal identification card to the defendant.
   1-23        (b)  The Department of Public Safety shall, on issuing a
   1-24  driver's license or personal identification card to a person whose
    2-1  previous license or card was ordered revoked under Subsection (a),
    2-2  include as part of the driver's license number or personal
    2-3  identification card number the letter "S" preceding the
    2-4  distinguishing number assigned by the department.  The inclusion of
    2-5  the letter "S" must clearly appear on the face of each original,
    2-6  renewed, duplicate, or corrected license issued to the person.
    2-7        SECTION 2.  (a)  The change in law made by this Act applies
    2-8  only to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this
    2-9  Act.  For purposes of this section, an offense is committed before
   2-10  the effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurs
   2-11  before that date.
   2-12        (b)  An offense committed before the effective date of this
   2-13  Act is covered by the law in effect when the offense was committed,
   2-14  and the former law is continued in effect for this purpose.
   2-15        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   2-16        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-17  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-18  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-19  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-20  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.