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By Flores H.B. No. 1937
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the suspension of driver's license of a person
1-3 convicted of offense of operating a motor vehicle without liability
1-4 insurance.
1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-6 SECTION 1. Section 601.155, Transportation Code, is amended
1-7 by changing subsection (c) and adding subsection (d) to read as
1-8 follows:
1-9 Sec. 601.155. Notice of Determination. (a) The department
1-10 shall notify the affected person of a determination made under
1-11 Section 601.154.
1-12 (b) The notice must state that:
1-13 (1) the person's driver's license and vehicle
1-14 registration or the person's nonresident's operating privilege will
1-15 be suspended unless the person, not later than 20th day after the
1-16 date the notice was personally served or mailed, establishes that:
1-17 (A) this subchapter does not apply to the
1-18 person, and the person has previously provided this information to
1-19 the department; or
1-20 (B) there is no reasonable probability that a
1-21 judgment will be rendered against the person as a result of the
1-22 accident; and
1-23 (2) the person is entitled to a hearing under this
1-24 subchapter if a written request for a hearing is delivered or
2-1 mailed to the department not later than the 20th day after the date
2-2 the notice was personally served or mailed.
2-3 (c) Notice under this section that is mailed must be mailed
2-4 [by certified mail, return receipt requested,] to the person's last
2-5 known address, as shown by the department's records.
2-6 (d) for purposes of this subsection, notice is presumed to
2-7 be received if the notice was mailed to the last known address of
2-8 the person as shown by department records.
2-9 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
2-10 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-11 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-12 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-13 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-14 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.