By Wise                                         H.B. No. 1393

      75R4744 DWS-D                           

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to including felony information on a driver's license.

 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 521, Transportation Code,

 1-5     is amended by adding Section 521.032 to read as follows:

 1-6           Sec. 521.032.  FELONY INFORMATION.  (a)  The department shall

 1-7     include on an electronically readable magnetic strip on each

 1-8     driver's license, including each commercial driver's license, a

 1-9     statement of whether the license holder has been convicted of a

1-10     felony, as shown by the state's criminal history record system as

1-11     of the date the license is issued.

1-12           (b)  For the purposes of this section, "convicted" has the

1-13     meaning assigned by Section 1, Article 4413(29ee), Revised

1-14     Statutes.

1-15           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-16           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-17     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-18     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-19     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-20     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.