81R8239 MTB-F
 
  By: Carona S.B. No. 1094
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the submission of reports on certain convictions or
  adjudications relating to the operation of motor vehicles to the
  Texas Department of Public Safety.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Sections 522.061(a) and (b), Transportation
  Code, are amended to read as follows:
         (a)  A person who holds or is required to hold a commercial
  driver's license under this chapter and who is convicted in another
  state of violating a state law or local ordinance relating to motor
  vehicle traffic control shall notify the department in the manner
  specified by the department not later than the seventh [30th] day
  after the date of conviction.
         (b)  A person who holds or is required to hold a commercial
  driver's license under this chapter and who is convicted in this
  state or another state of violating a state law or local ordinance
  relating to motor vehicle traffic control, including a law
  regulating the operation of vehicles on highways, shall notify the
  person's employer in writing of the conviction not later than the
  seventh [30th] day after the date of conviction.
         SECTION 2.  Section 543.203, Transportation Code, is amended
  to read as follows:
         Sec. 543.203.  SUBMITTING RECORD TO DEPARTMENT.  Not later
  than the seventh [30th] day after the date of conviction or
  forfeiture of bail of a person on a charge of violating a law
  regulating the operation of a vehicle on a highway or conviction of
  a person of negligent homicide or a felony in the commission of
  which a vehicle was used, the magistrate, judge, or clerk of the
  court in which the conviction was had or bail was forfeited shall
  immediately submit to the department a written record of the case
  containing the information required by Section 543.202.
         SECTION 3.  Section 543.204(a), Transportation Code, is
  amended to read as follows:
         (a)  A justice of the peace or municipal judge who defers
  further proceedings, suspends all or part of the imposition of the
  fine, and places a defendant on probation under Article 45.051,
  Code of Criminal Procedure, or a county court judge who follows that
  procedure under Article 42.111, Code of Criminal Procedure, may not
  submit a written record to the department, except that if the
  justice or judge subsequently adjudicates the defendant's guilt,
  the justice or judge shall submit the record not later than the
  seventh [30th] day after the date on which the justice or judge
  adjudicates guilt.
         SECTION 4.  The change in law made by this Act applies only
  to a conviction, forfeiture of bail, or adjudication of guilt that
  occurs on or after the effective date of this Act.
         SECTION 5.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2009.