Bill Text: TX HB1699 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the participation by qualified persons in the Department of Public Safety's driver record monitoring pilot program.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2017-05-29 - Effective immediately [HB1699 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB1699-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the participation by qualified persons in the Department of Public Safety's driver record monitoring pilot program.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2017-05-29 - Effective immediately [HB1699 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB1699-Comm_Sub.html
By: Geren (Senate Sponsor - Nichols) | H.B. No. 1699 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 18, 2017; | ||
May 2, 2017, read first time and referred to Committee on | ||
Transportation; May 10, 2017, reported favorably by the following | ||
vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 10, 2017, sent to printer.) | ||
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relating to the participation by qualified persons in the | ||
Department of Public Safety's driver record monitoring pilot | ||
program. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Sections 521.062, Transportation Code, is | ||
amended by amending Subsections (b) and (j) and adding Subsections | ||
(b-1) and (b-2) to read as follows: | ||
(b) Under the pilot program, the department shall: | ||
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qualified to provide driver record monitoring services, as | ||
described by Subsection (c); [ |
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(2) provide certain information from the department's | ||
driver's license records to the person as provided by this section. | ||
(b-1) A person is qualified to provide driver record | ||
monitoring services [ |
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(1) has submitted an application to the department; | ||
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support organization, an employer support organization, or an | ||
entity that self-insures its motor vehicles; and | ||
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Chapter 730. | ||
(b-2) The department may not limit the number of qualified | ||
persons participating in the pilot program. | ||
(j) The department shall accept and consider applications | ||
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to enter into a contract with the department under this section | ||
until the conclusion of the term of the pilot program [ |
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SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
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