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.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-29 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB1908 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB1908-Comm_Sub.html
86R14537 AJZ-D | |||
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. |