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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