By Hinojosa H.B. No. 1483 76R1701 JD-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the reporting of certain convictions to the Texas 1-3 Department of Public Safety for the purposes of the suspension of 1-4 the defendants' driver's licenses. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Section 521.347(c), Transportation Code, is 1-7 amended to read as follows: 1-8 (c) For purposes of this section, "conviction" means a final 1-9 conviction. A conviction is a final conviction regardless of 1-10 whether any portion of the sentence for the conviction was 1-11 suspended or probated but is not a final conviction if the 1-12 defendant receives a deferred adjudication in the case or if the 1-13 court defers final disposition of the case, unless the court 1-14 subsequently proceeds with an adjudication of guilt and imposes a 1-15 sentence on the defendant. For purposes of this section, a final 1-16 judgment of forfeiture of bail or collateral deposited to secure a 1-17 defendant's appearance in court is a conviction if the forfeiture 1-18 is not vacated. 1-19 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-23 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-24 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-1 passage, and it is so enacted.