By Harris of Tarrant                                   S.B. No. 115
       74R325 MJW-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to denial and suspension of a Texas driver's license for
    1-3  failure to pay child support.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 14, Family Code, is amended
    1-6  by adding Section 14.54 to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 14.54.  DRIVER'S LICENSE DENIAL AND SUSPENSION.  (a)
    1-8  The attorney general and the Department of Public Safety may by
    1-9  rule establish a procedure for the denial or suspension of the
   1-10  driver's license of an individual who is 30 or more days delinquent
   1-11  in providing child support.
   1-12        (b)  Rules adopted under this section shall include
   1-13  provisions for:
   1-14              (1)  verification;
   1-15              (2)  temporary licenses; and
   1-16              (3)  judicial review of delinquency.
   1-17        (c)  Denial or suspension of a license under rules adopted
   1-18  under this section is governed by the rules and this section and
   1-19  not by the general licensing provisions of Chapter 173, Acts of the
   1-20  47th Legislature, Regular Session, 1941 (Article 6687b, Vernon's
   1-21  Texas Civil Statutes).
   1-22        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-23        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-24  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-1  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-2  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-3  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.