By Nelson S.B. No. 103 75R588 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 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symbol on the license or card in a manner determined by the 2-3 department indicating that the previous license or card was revoked 2-4 under Subsection (a).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.