By Kuempel                                            H.B. No. 2032
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to surrender of a suspended or revoked driver's license or
 1-3     vehicle registration.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 521.308, Transportation Code, is amended
 1-6     to read as follows:
 1-7           Sec. 521.308.  SURRENDER OF LICENSE;  RETURN.  (a)  On the
 1-8     suspension or revocation of a license by the department, the
 1-9     department may [shall] require the holder to surrender the license
1-10     to the department.
1-11           (b)  The department may [shall] return a suspended license to
1-12     the holder on the expiration of the suspension period.
1-13           SECTION 2.  Section 521.347(a), Transportation Code, is
1-14     amended to read as follows:
1-15           (a)  The court in which a person is convicted of an offense
1-16     for which this chapter or Chapter 522 requires automatic suspension
1-17     of the person's driver's license may [shall] require the person to
1-18     surrender to the court each  driver's license held by the person.
1-19     Not later than the 10th day after the date on which the license is
1-20     surrendered to the court, the clerk of the court shall send to the
1-21     department:
1-22                 (1)  the license; and
1-23                 (2)  a record of the conviction that states whether the
1-24     vehicle involved in the offense was a commercial motor vehicle as
 2-1     defined by Chapter 522 or was involved in the transport of
 2-2     hazardous materials.
 2-3           SECTION 3.  Section 601.372(c), Transportation Code, is
 2-4     amended to read as follows:
 2-5           (c)  The department by rule may require the person to [shall]
 2-6     send the person's driver's license and vehicle registrations not
 2-7     later than the 10th day after the date the person receives written
 2-8     notice from the department.
 2-9           SECTION 4.  Section 601.373(b), Transportation Code, is
2-10     amended to read as follows:
2-11           (b)  The department may [shall] direct a department employee
2-12     to obtain and send to the department the driver's license and
2-13     vehicle registration of a person who fails to send the person's
2-14     license or registration in accordance with Section 601.372.  The
2-15     director of the department or the  person designated by the
2-16     director may file a complaint against a person for an offense under
2-17     Subsection (a).
2-18           SECTION 5.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
2-19           SECTION 6.  The importance of this legislation and the
2-20     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-21     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-22     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-23     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.