1-1     By:  Kuempel (Senate Sponsor - Armbrister)            H.B. No. 2032
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House May 13, 1999;
 1-3     May 14, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on State
 1-4     Affairs; May 14, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:
 1-5     Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 14, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to surrender of a suspended or revoked driver's license or
 1-9     vehicle registration.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Section 521.308, Transportation Code, is amended
1-12     to read as follows:
1-13           Sec. 521.308.  SURRENDER OF LICENSE;  RETURN.  (a)  On the
1-14     suspension or revocation of a license by the department, the
1-15     department may [shall] require the holder to surrender the license
1-16     to the department.
1-17           (b)  The department may [shall] return a suspended license to
1-18     the holder on the expiration of the suspension period.
1-19           SECTION 2.  Section 521.347(a), Transportation Code, is
1-20     amended to read as follows:
1-21           (a)  The court in which a person is convicted of an offense
1-22     for which this chapter or Chapter 522 requires automatic suspension
1-23     of the person's driver's license may [shall] require the person to
1-24     surrender to the court each  driver's license held by the person.
1-25     Not later than the 10th day after the date on which the license is
1-26     surrendered to the court, the clerk of the court shall send to the
1-27     department:
1-28                 (1)  the license; and
1-29                 (2)  a record of the conviction that states whether the
1-30     vehicle involved in the offense was a commercial motor vehicle as
1-31     defined by Chapter 522 or was involved in the transport of
1-32     hazardous materials.
1-33           SECTION 3.  Section 601.372(c), Transportation Code, is
1-34     amended to read as follows:
1-35           (c)  The department by rule may require the person to [shall]
1-36     send the person's driver's license and vehicle registrations not
1-37     later than the 10th day after the date the person receives written
1-38     notice from the department.
1-39           SECTION 4.  Section 601.373(b), Transportation Code, is
1-40     amended to read as follows:
1-41           (b)  The department may [shall] direct a department employee
1-42     to obtain and send to the department the driver's license and
1-43     vehicle registration of a person who fails to send the person's
1-44     license or registration in accordance with Section 601.372.  The
1-45     director of the department or the  person designated by the
1-46     director may file a complaint against a person for an offense under
1-47     Subsection (a).
1-48           SECTION 5.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-49           SECTION 6.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-50     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-51     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-52     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-53     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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