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. 1-32 * * * * *