By: Truan S.B. No. 559
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the suspension of the driver's license of a minor for
1-2 certain conduct.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Subchapter O, Chapter 521, Transportation Code,
1-5 is amended by adding Section 521.348 to read as follows:
1-6 Sec. 521.348. SUSPENSION ON CONVICTION OF OR ADJUDICATION OF
1-7 DELINQUENT CONDUCT CONSTITUTING CERTAIN OFFENSES BY MINOR. The
1-8 license of a person who is younger than 18 years of age is
1-9 automatically suspended on final conviction of or a final
1-10 adjudication of delinquent conduct that constitutes:
1-11 (1) an offense under Section 22.05(b), Penal Code, if
1-12 the offense was committed while in a motor vehicle;
1-13 (2) an offense under Section 46.03(a)(1), Penal Code;
1-14 or
1-15 (3) an offense under Chapter 46, Penal Code, if the
1-16 offense was committed while in a motor vehicle.
1-17 SECTION 2. Subsection (a), Section 54.042, Family Code, is
1-18 amended to read as follows:
1-19 (a) A juvenile court, in a disposition hearing under Section
1-20 54.04 of this code, shall:
1-21 (1) order the Department of Public Safety of the State
1-22 of Texas to suspend a child's driver's license or permit, or if the
1-23 child does not have a license or permit, to deny the issuance of a
2-1 license or permit to the child if the court finds that the child
2-2 has engaged in conduct that violates Section 521.342,
2-3 Transportation Code [a law of this state enumerated in Section
2-4 24(a-1), Chapter 173, Acts of the 47th Legislature, Regular
2-5 Session, 1941 (Article 6687b, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes)]; [or]
2-6 (2) notify the Department of Public Safety of the
2-7 State of Texas of the adjudication, if the court finds that the
2-8 child has engaged in conduct that violates Section 521.372,
2-9 Transportation Code; or
2-10 (3) notify the Department of Public Safety of the
2-11 State of Texas of an adjudication in which the court finds that the
2-12 child has engaged in conduct that violates:
2-13 (A) Section 22.05(b), Penal Code, if the child
2-14 engaged in the conduct while in a motor vehicle;
2-15 (B) Section 46.03(a)(1), Penal Code; or
2-16 (C) a section under Chapter 46, Penal Code, if
2-17 the child engaged in the conduct while in a motor vehicle [a law of
2-18 this state enumerated in Section 24B(b), Chapter 173, Acts of the
2-19 47th Legislature, Regular Session, 1941 (Article 6687b, Vernon's
2-20 Texas Civil Statutes)].
2-21 SECTION 3. (a) The change in law made by this Act applies
2-22 only to a minor convicted of or adjudicated of delinquent conduct
2-23 constituting an offense committed on or after the effective date of
2-24 this Act. For purposes of this section, an offense is committed
2-25 before the effective date of this Act if any element of the offense
3-1 occurs before that date.
3-2 (b) An offense committed before the effective date of this
3-3 Act is covered by the law in effect when the offense was committed,
3-4 and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
3-5 SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
3-6 SECTION 5. The importance of this legislation and the
3-7 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
3-8 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
3-9 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
3-10 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.