By Carona S.B. No. 101 76R184 AJA-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to revocation of a driver's license following certain 1-3 convictions. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter N, Chapter 521, Transportation Code, 1-6 is amended by adding Section 521.3121 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 521.3121. REVOCATION FOR MULTIPLE CONVICTIONS OF 1-8 OFFENSE INVOLVING OPERATING MOTOR VEHICLE WHILE INTOXICATED. (a) 1-9 In this section, "offense relating to the operation of a motor 1-10 vehicle while intoxicated" means: 1-11 (1) an offense under Section 49.04, Penal Code; or 1-12 (2) an offense under Section 49.07 or 49.08, Penal 1-13 Code, that involves the operation of a motor vehicle. 1-14 (b) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter to 1-15 the contrary, on the third conviction of a person for an offense 1-16 relating to the operation of a motor vehicle while intoxicated the 1-17 person's driver's license is automatically revoked. 1-18 (c) Section 13(g), Article 42.12, Code of Criminal 1-19 Procedure, and Section 521.344(d) do not apply to revocation of a 1-20 driver's license under this section. 1-21 (d) The department may not issue a driver's license at any 1-22 time to a person whose license has been revoked under this section. 1-23 SECTION 2. Section 521.347(a), Transportation Code, is 1-24 amended to read as follows: 2-1 (a) The court in which a person is convicted of an offense 2-2 for which this chapter or Chapter 522 requires automatic suspension 2-3 or revocation of the person's driver's license shall require the 2-4 person to surrender to the court each driver's license held by the 2-5 person. Not later than the 10th day after the date on which the 2-6 license is surrendered to the court, the clerk of the court shall 2-7 send to the department: 2-8 (1) the license; and 2-9 (2) a record of the conviction that states whether the 2-10 vehicle involved in the offense was a commercial motor vehicle as 2-11 defined by Chapter 522 or was involved in the transport of 2-12 hazardous materials. 2-13 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and 2-14 applies to an offense that would result in a driver's license 2-15 revocation under Section 521.3121, Transportation Code, as added by 2-16 this Act, and that is committed on or after the effective date of 2-17 this Act. For the purposes of Section 521.3121, Transportation 2-18 Code, as added by this Act, a fourth or subsequent conviction of an 2-19 offense described by Section 521.3121(a), Transportation Code, as 2-20 added by this Act, that occurs on or after the effective date of 2-21 this Act shall be treated as a third conviction. For the purposes 2-22 of this section, an offense is committed before the effective date 2-23 of this Act if any element of the offense occurs before that date. 2-24 An offense committed before the effective date of this Act is 2-25 covered by the law in effect when the offense was committed, and 2-26 the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. 2-27 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 3-1 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 3-2 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 3-3 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 3-4 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.