SRC-LBB H.B. 1032 78(R)   BILL ANALYSIS


Senate Research Center   H.B. 1032
78R1759 DWS-DBy: Driver (Deuell)
Infrastructure Development and Security
5/6/2003
Engrossed


DIGEST AND PURPOSE 

Under current law, an instruction permit expires on the driver's license
applicant's next birthday after being issued the permit.  However,
applicants are required by law to hold the instruction permit for six
months and some applicants' next birthdays will fall within that six-month
period. While these individuals are compelled by current law to return to
the Department of Motor Vehicles to renew their instruction permits by
their birthday, many applicants believe that their instruction permit
expires at the end of the mandatory six-month holding period and, based on
this belief, fail to renew the permit and operate with an expired permit
after their birthday.  H.B. 1032  provides that an instruction permit
expires on the second, rather than the first, birthday of the license
holder occurring after the date of the application. 


RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

This bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to
a state officer, institution, or agency. 

SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS

SECTION 1.  Amends Section 521.271(a), Transportation Code, to provide
that an instruction permit expires on the second, rather than the first,
birthday of the license holder occurring after the date of the
application. 
  
SECTION 2.  Makes application of this Act prospective.

SECTION 3.  Effective date:  September 1, 2003.