Bill Text: TX SB678 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the expiration date of a driver's license; increasing a fee.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-01 - Referred to Transportation [SB678 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB678-Introduced.html
86R2734 MP-F | ||
By: Hall | S.B. No. 678 |
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relating to the expiration date of a driver's license; increasing a | ||
fee. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 521.271(a), Transportation Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) Each original driver's license, provisional license, | ||
learner license, or occupational driver's license issued to an | ||
applicant who is a citizen, national, or legal permanent resident | ||
of the United States or a refugee or asylee lawfully admitted into | ||
the United States expires as follows: | ||
(1) except as provided by Section 521.2711, a driver's | ||
license expires on the eighth [ |
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application; | ||
(2) a provisional license expires on the 18th birthday | ||
of the license holder; | ||
(3) a learner license expires on the 18th birthday of | ||
the license holder; | ||
(4) an occupational driver's license expires on the | ||
first anniversary of the court order granting the license; and | ||
(5) unless an earlier date is otherwise provided, a | ||
driver's license issued to a person whose residence or domicile is a | ||
correctional facility or a parole facility expires on the first | ||
birthday of the license holder occurring after the first | ||
anniversary of the date of issuance. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 521.421(a), Transportation Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) The fee for issuance or renewal of a license not | ||
otherwise provided for by this section is $32 [ |
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SECTION 3. The changes in law made by this Act to Sections | ||
521.271 and 521.421, Transportation Code, apply only to a driver's | ||
license issued or renewed on or after June 1, 2020. A driver's | ||
license issued or renewed before June 1, 2020, is governed by the | ||
law in effect immediately before the effective date of this Act, and | ||
the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |