81R30402 E
 
  By: King of Zavala H.B. No. 1499
 
  Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1499:
 
  By:  Merritt C.S.H.B. No. 1499
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the installation and removal of an ignition interlock
  device.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Article 17.441(c), Code of Criminal Procedure,
  is amended to read as follows:
         (c)  If the defendant is required to have the device
  installed, the magistrate shall require that the defendant have the
  device installed on the appropriate motor vehicle, at the
  defendant's expense, not later than the 15th business [before the
  30th] day after the date the defendant is released on bond.
         SECTION 2.  Section 13(i), Article 42.12, Code of Criminal
  Procedure, is amended to read as follows:
         (i)  If a person convicted of an offense under Sections
  49.04-49.08, Penal Code, is placed on community supervision, the
  court may require as a condition of community supervision that the
  defendant have a device installed, on the motor vehicle owned by the
  defendant or on the vehicle most regularly driven by the defendant,
  that uses a deep-lung breath analysis mechanism to make impractical
  the operation of the motor vehicle if ethyl alcohol is detected in
  the breath of the operator and that the defendant not operate any
  motor vehicle that is not equipped with that device.  If it is shown
  on the trial of the offense that an analysis of a specimen of the
  person's blood, breath, or urine showed an alcohol concentration
  level of 0.15 or more at the time the analysis was performed, or if
  the person is convicted of an offense under Sections 49.04-49.06,
  Penal Code, and punished under Section 49.09(a) or (b), Penal Code,
  or of a second or subsequent offense under Section 49.07 or 49.08,
  Penal Code, and the person after conviction of either offense is
  placed on community supervision, the court shall require as a
  condition of community supervision that the defendant have the
  device installed on the appropriate vehicle and that the defendant
  not operate any motor vehicle unless the vehicle is equipped with
  that device.  Before placing on community supervision a person
  convicted of an offense under Sections 49.04-49.08, Penal Code, the
  court shall determine from criminal history record information
  maintained by the Department of Public Safety whether the person
  has one or more previous convictions under Sections 49.04-49.08,
  Penal Code, or has one previous conviction under Sections
  49.04-49.07, Penal Code, or one previous conviction under Section
  49.08, Penal Code.  If it is shown on the trial of the offense that
  an analysis of a specimen of the person's blood, breath, or urine
  showed an alcohol concentration level of 0.15 or more at the time
  the analysis was performed, or if the court determines that the
  person has one or more such previous convictions, the court shall
  require as a condition of community supervision that the defendant
  have that device installed on the motor vehicle owned by the
  defendant or on the vehicle most regularly driven by the defendant
  and that the defendant not operate any motor vehicle unless the
  vehicle is equipped with the device described in this
  subsection.  The court shall require the defendant to obtain the
  device at the defendant's own cost not later than the 15th business
  [before the 30th] day after the date of conviction unless the court
  finds that to do so would not be in the best interest of justice and
  enters its findings on record.  The court shall require the
  defendant to promptly provide evidence to the court [within the
  30-day period] that the device has been installed on the
  appropriate vehicle and order the device to remain installed on
  that vehicle for a period not less than 50 percent of the
  supervision period.  If the court determines the offender is unable
  to pay for the device, the court may impose a reasonable payment
  schedule not to exceed twice the period of the court's order.  The
  Department of Public Safety shall approve devices for use under
  this subsection.  Section 521.247, Transportation Code, applies to
  the approval of a device under this subsection and the consequences
  of that approval.  Notwithstanding the provisions of this section,
  if a person is required to operate a motor vehicle in the course and
  scope of the person's employment and if the vehicle is owned by the
  employer, the person may operate that vehicle without installation
  of an approved ignition interlock device if the employer has been
  notified of that driving privilege restriction and if proof of that
  notification is with the vehicle.  This employment exemption does
  not apply, however, if the business entity that owns the vehicle is
  owned or controlled by the person whose driving privilege has been
  restricted.  A previous conviction may not be used for purposes of
  restricting a person to the operation of a motor vehicle equipped
  with an interlock ignition device under this subsection if:
               (1)  the previous conviction was a final conviction
  under Section 49.04, 49.045, 49.05, 49.06, 49.07, or 49.08, Penal
  Code, and was for an offense committed more than 10 years before the
  instant offense for which the person was convicted and placed on
  community supervision; and
               (2)  the person has not been convicted of an offense
  under Section 49.04, 49.045, 49.05, 49.06, 49.07, or 49.08 of that
  code, committed within 10 years before the date on which the instant
  offense for which the person was convicted and placed on community
  supervision.
         SECTION 3.  Section 521.246(d), Transportation Code, is
  amended to read as follows:
         (d)  The court shall require the ignition interlock device to
  be installed not later than the 15th business day after the date the
  occupational license takes effect and shall order the ignition
  interlock device to remain installed for at least half of the period
  of supervision.
         SECTION 4.  Section 521.2476(b), Transportation Code, is
  amended to read as follows:
         (b)  The minimum standards shall require each vendor to:
               (1)  be authorized by the department to do business in
  this state;
               (2)  install a device only if the device is approved
  under Section 521.247;
               (3)  obtain liability insurance providing coverage for
  damages arising out of the operation or use of devices in amounts
  and under the terms specified by the department;
               (4)  install the device and activate any
  anticircumvention feature of the device within a reasonable time
  after the vendor receives notice that installation is ordered by a
  court;
               (5)  install and inspect the device in accordance with
  any applicable court order;
               (6)  repair or replace a device not later than 48 hours
  after receiving notice of a complaint regarding the operation of
  the device;
               (7)  remove a device not later than the 15th business
  day after the date the owner or operator of the vehicle requests
  removal and provides a copy of a court order to the vendor showing
  that the owner or operator is no longer restricted to the use of a
  motor vehicle equipped with an ignition interlock device;
               (8)  submit a written report of any violation of a court
  order to that court and to the person's supervising officer, if any,
  not later than 48 hours after the vendor discovers the violation;
               (9) [(8)]  maintain a record of each action taken by
  the vendor with respect to each device installed by the vendor,
  including each action taken as a result of an attempt to circumvent
  the device, until at least the fifth anniversary after the date of
  installation;
               (10) [(9)]  make a copy of the record available for
  inspection by or send a copy of the record to any court, supervising
  officer, or the department on request; and
               (11) [(10)]  annually provide to the department a
  written report of each service and ignition interlock device
  feature made available by the vendor.
         SECTION 5.  The changes in law made by this Act in amending
  Articles 17.441 and 42.12, Code of Criminal Procedure, and Section
  521.246, Transportation Code, apply only to a court order entered
  on or after the effective date of this Act. A court order entered
  before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in
  effect when the court order was entered, and the former law is
  continued in effect for that purpose.
         SECTION 6.  The Department of Public Safety by rule shall
  establish the minimum standards required by Section 521.2476(b),
  Transportation Code, as amended by this Act, not later than
  December 1, 2009.
         SECTION 7.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2009.