By Nelson                                              S.B. No. 103

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                                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     place a symbol on the license or card in a manner determined by the

 2-3     department indicating that the previous license or card was revoked

 2-4     under Subsection (a).  The symbol must clearly appear on the face

 2-5     of each original, renewed, duplicate, or corrected license issued

 2-6     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, 1997.

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.