Bill Text: TX HB101 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the creation of a hotline to report suspected incidents of impaired driving or dangerous driving.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-04-14 - Left pending in subcommittee [HB101 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB101-Introduced.html
By: Martinez Fischer | H.B. No. 101 |
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relating to the creation of a hotline to report suspected incidents | ||
of impaired driving or dangerous driving. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 411, Government Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 411.053 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 411.053. IMPAIRED OR DANGEROUS DRIVING HOTLINE. (a) | ||
The department shall develop and operate a 24-hour-a-day hotline | ||
for persons to report incidents of suspected driving while | ||
intoxicated or under the influence of alcohol, controlled | ||
substances, or drugs and dangerous driving to the department. | ||
(b) The hotline must enable a person to report an incident | ||
described by Subsection (a) to the department by: | ||
(1) calling a toll-free telephone number; | ||
(2) using an Internet website; or | ||
(3) using other means of electronic communication, | ||
including: | ||
(A) e-mail message transmission; or | ||
(B) text messaging. | ||
(c) The department, as soon as practicable, shall forward a | ||
report received on the hotline to the municipal police department | ||
or sheriff's office with jurisdiction over the matter. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011. |