By:  Armbrister                                        S.B. No. 578
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                       AN ACT
 1-1     relating to the reporting of certain convictions to the Texas
 1-2     Department of Public Safety for the purposes of the suspension of
 1-3     the defendants' driver's licenses.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Subsection (c), Section 521.347, Transportation
 1-6     Code, is amended to read as follows:
 1-7           (c)  For purposes of this section, "conviction" means a final
 1-8     conviction.  A conviction is a final conviction regardless of
 1-9     whether any portion of the sentence for the conviction was
1-10     suspended or probated but is not a final conviction if the
1-11     defendant receives a deferred adjudication in the case or if the
1-12     court defers final disposition of the case, unless the court
1-13     subsequently proceeds with an adjudication of guilt and imposes a
1-14     sentence on the defendant.  For purposes of this section, a final
1-15     judgment of forfeiture of bail or collateral deposited to secure a
1-16     defendant's appearance in court is a conviction if the forfeiture
1-17     is not vacated.
1-18           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-19     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-20     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-21     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-22     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-23     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-24     passage, and it is so enacted.