By:  Carona                                           S.B. No. 1157
         99S0547/1                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                       AN ACT
 1-1     relating to the reporting of certain convictions to the Department
 1-2     of Public Safety.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 523.004, Transportation Code, is amended
 1-5     to read as follows:
 1-6           Sec. 523.004.  REPORTS OF CONVICTIONS.  The licensing
 1-7     authority of a state shall report each conviction of a person from
 1-8     another state occurring within its jurisdiction to the licensing
 1-9     authority of the home state of the licensee. Such report shall
1-10     clearly identify the person convicted; describe the violation
1-11     specifying the section of the statute, code, or ordinance violated;
1-12     identify the court in which action was taken; indicate whether a
1-13     plea of guilty or not guilty was entered or the conviction was a
1-14     result of the forfeiture of bail, bond, or other security; and
1-15     include any special findings made in connection with the
1-16     conviction.  A conviction or judicial or administrative action of a
1-17     federal or military court or tribunal may be reported to this state
1-18     subject to this chapter.
1-19           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-20           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-21     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-22     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-23     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-24     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.