1-1     By:  Armbrister                                        S.B. No. 578
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed February 17, 1999; February 22, 1999,
 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice;
 1-4     April 8, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 7,
 1-5     Nays 0; April 8, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to the reporting of certain convictions to the Texas
 1-9     Department of Public Safety for the purposes of the suspension of
1-10     the defendants' driver's licenses.
1-11           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12           SECTION 1.  Subsection (c), Section 521.347, Transportation
1-13     Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-14           (c)  For purposes of this section, "conviction" means a final
1-15     conviction.  A conviction is a final conviction regardless of
1-16     whether any portion of the sentence for the conviction was
1-17     suspended or probated but is not a final conviction if the
1-18     defendant receives a deferred adjudication in the case or if the
1-19     court defers final disposition of the case, unless the court
1-20     subsequently proceeds with an adjudication of guilt and imposes a
1-21     sentence on the defendant.  For purposes of this section, a final
1-22     judgment of forfeiture of bail or collateral deposited to secure a
1-23     defendant's appearance in court is a conviction if the forfeiture
1-24     is not vacated.
1-25           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-26     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-27     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-28     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-29     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-30     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-31     passage, and it is so enacted.
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