Bill Text: TX HB438 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the courts authorized to issue an occupational driver's license.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2)
Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/13 [HB438 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB438-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 438 | ||
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| relating to the courts authorized to issue an occupational driver's | ||
| license. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Sections 521.242(a), (b), and (e), | ||
| Transportation Code, are amended to read as follows: | ||
| (a) A person whose license has been suspended for a cause | ||
| other than a physical or mental disability or impairment or a | ||
| conviction under Section 49.04, Penal Code, may apply for an | ||
| occupational license by filing a verified petition with the clerk | ||
| of a justice, [ |
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| jurisdiction that includes [ |
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| (1) the person resides; or | ||
| (2) the offense occurred for which the license was | ||
| suspended. | ||
| (b) A person may apply for an occupational license by filing | ||
| a verified petition only with the clerk of the [ |
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| (1) the person's license has been automatically | ||
| suspended or canceled under this chapter for a conviction of an | ||
| offense under the laws of this state; and | ||
| (2) the person has not been issued, in the 10 years | ||
| preceding the date of the filing of the petition, more than one | ||
| occupational license after a conviction under the laws of this | ||
| state. | ||
| (e) The clerk of the court shall file the petition as in any | ||
| other [ |
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| SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only | ||
| to an occupational driver's license that is applied for on or after | ||
| the effective date of this Act. An occupational driver's license | ||
| applied for before the effective date of this Act is covered by the | ||
| law in effect on the date the application was filed, and the former | ||
| law is continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 438 was passed by the House on May 2, | ||
| 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 144, Nays 3, 2 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 438 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 22, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
