Bill Text: TX HB3647 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the imposition by the Department of Public Safety of administrative and civil consequences for certain criminal convictions.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-11 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB3647 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB3647-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the imposition by the Department of Public Safety of administrative and civil consequences for certain criminal convictions.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-11 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB3647 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB3647-Comm_Sub.html
88R14402 AJZ-D | ||
By: Guillen | H.B. No. 3647 |
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relating to the imposition by the Department of Public Safety of | ||
administrative and civil consequences for certain criminal | ||
convictions. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 521.042, Transportation Code, is amended | ||
by adding Subsections (f) and (g) to read as follows: | ||
(f) Except as provided by Subsection (g), the department may | ||
not consider a record of a conviction of a license holder that is | ||
received by the department after the first anniversary of the date | ||
of the conviction in a decision to impose an enforcement action | ||
against the license holder, including a decision to suspend, | ||
revoke, or deny renewal of the license holder's driver's license. | ||
(g) The department may consider a record of a conviction of | ||
a license holder that is received by the department after the first | ||
anniversary of the date of the conviction in a decision to impose an | ||
enforcement action against the license holder if: | ||
(1) the license holder: | ||
(A) is a commercial driver's license holder or | ||
was a commercial driver's license holder at the time of the offense; | ||
(B) was operating a commercial motor vehicle at | ||
the time of the offense; or | ||
(C) was operating a motor vehicle and | ||
transporting a hazardous material at the time of the offense; or | ||
(2) the conviction is for an offense under Chapter 49, | ||
Penal Code. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |