By Goolsby H.B. No. 15 76R247 DWS-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to testing for controlled substance use by an applicant 1-3 for a commercial driver's license or learner's permit. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 522, Transportation Code, 1-6 is amended by adding Section 522.0245 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 522.0245. CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE TESTING. (a) The 1-8 department may not issue a commercial driver's license or 1-9 commercial driver learner's permit to an applicant who the 1-10 department determines has illegally used a controlled substance 1-11 during the 90-day period preceding the date of the application. 1-12 (b) The department shall make a determination under 1-13 Subsection (a) using an analysis of the applicant's hair. The 1-14 applicant must submit a sample of the applicant's hair in the 1-15 manner directed by the department. 1-16 (c) In addition to other fees provided by this chapter, an 1-17 applicant must submit with an application for a commercial driver's 1-18 license or commercial driver learner's permit a fee in an amount 1-19 set by the department to cover the cost of the analysis of the 1-20 applicant's hair. 1-21 SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only 1-22 to an application for a commercial driver's license or commercial 1-23 driver learner's permit submitted on or after the effective date of 1-24 this Act. 2-1 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 2-2 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 2-3 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-4 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-5 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-6 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.