Bill Text: TX SB1281 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced

Texas Senate Bill 1281

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to prohibiting the denial of a driver's license renewal for failure to appear in court, failure to pay a fine or cost, or failure to satisfy a judgment.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-05-16 - Co-author authorized [SB1281 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-SB1281-Introduced.html

	88R4343 DIO-F

	By: Hughes	S.B. No. 1281



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to prohibiting the denial of a driver's license renewal
	for failure to appear in court, failure to pay a fine or cost, or
	failure to satisfy a judgment.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 133.124, Local Government Code, is
	amended to read as follows:
	Sec. 133.124. ALLOCATION OF FEES TO TRANSPORTATION
	ADMINISTRATIVE FEE ACCOUNT. The transportation administrative fee
	account is an account in the general revenue fund. The account
	consists of money allocated to the account under Section
	133.102(e). [~~Money in the account may be appropriated only to the~~
	~~Department of Public Safety to defray the administrative costs~~
	~~associated with implementing Chapter 706, Transportation Code.~~]
	SECTION 2. The following provisions of the Transportation
	Code are repealed:
	(1) Section 521.317;
	(2) Section 521.3452(b); and
	(3) Chapter 706.
	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.