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.