Bill Text: TX HB1908 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the indigent status of a person for purposes of the driver responsibility program.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-29 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB1908 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB1908-Comm_Sub.html
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| By: Moody | H.B. No. 1908 | ||
| Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1908: | |||
| By: Goodwin | C.S.H.B. No. 1908 | ||
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| relating to the indigent status of a person for purposes of the | ||
| driver responsibility program. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 708.158, Transportation Code, is amended | ||
| by amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsection (c) to read as | ||
| follows: | ||
| (b) A person must provide information to the court in which | ||
| the person is convicted of the offense that is the basis for the | ||
| surcharge to establish that the person is indigent. The following | ||
| documentation may be used as proof: | ||
| (1) a copy of the person's most recent federal income | ||
| tax return that shows that the person's income or the person's | ||
| household income does not exceed 125 percent of the applicable | ||
| income level established by the federal poverty guidelines; | ||
| (2) a copy of the person's most recent statement of | ||
| wages that shows that the person's income or the person's household | ||
| income does not exceed 125 percent of the applicable income level | ||
| established by the federal poverty guidelines; [ |
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| (3) documentation from a federal agency, state agency, | ||
| or school district that indicates that the person or, if the person | ||
| is a dependent as defined by Section 152, Internal Revenue Code of | ||
| 1986, the taxpayer claiming the person as a dependent, receives | ||
| assistance from: | ||
| (A) the food stamp program or the financial | ||
| assistance program established under Chapter 31, Human Resources | ||
| Code; | ||
| (B) the federal special supplemental nutrition | ||
| program for women, infants, and children authorized by 42 U.S.C. | ||
| Section 1786; | ||
| (C) the medical assistance program under Chapter | ||
| 32, Human Resources Code; | ||
| (D) the child health plan program under Chapter | ||
| 62, Health and Safety Code; or | ||
| (E) the national free or reduced-price lunch | ||
| program established under 42 U.S.C. Section 1751 et seq.; or | ||
| (4) evidence that the person was represented by | ||
| appointed counsel at the person's trial. | ||
| (c) As soon as practicable after the date the court receives | ||
| information described by Subsection (b) establishing that a person | ||
| is indigent, the court shall notify the department that the person | ||
| is indigent for the purposes of this chapter. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
