By: Carona S.B. No. 1094
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the submission of reports on certain convictions or
adjudications relating to the operation of motor vehicles to the
Department of Public Safety of the State of Texas.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subsections (a) and (b), Section 522.061,
Transportation Code, are amended to read as follows:
(a) A person who holds or is required to hold a commercial
driver's license under this chapter and who is convicted in another
state of violating a state law or local ordinance relating to motor
vehicle traffic control shall notify the department in the manner
specified by the department not later than the seventh [30th] day
after the date of conviction.
(b) A person who holds or is required to hold a commercial
driver's license under this chapter and who is convicted in this
state or another state of violating a state law or local ordinance
relating to motor vehicle traffic control, including a law
regulating the operation of vehicles on highways, shall notify the
person's employer in writing of the conviction not later than the
seventh [30th] day after the date of conviction.
SECTION 2. Section 543.203, Transportation Code, is amended
to read as follows:
Sec. 543.203. SUBMITTING RECORD TO DEPARTMENT. Not later
than the seventh [30th] day after the date of conviction or
forfeiture of bail of a person on a charge of violating a law
regulating the operation of a vehicle on a highway or conviction of
a person of negligent homicide or a felony in the commission of
which a vehicle was used, the magistrate, judge, or clerk of the
court in which the conviction was had or bail was forfeited shall
immediately submit to the department a written record of the case
containing the information required by Section 543.202.
SECTION 3. Subsection (a), Section 543.204, Transportation
Code, is amended to read as follows:
(a) A justice of the peace or municipal judge who defers
further proceedings, suspends all or part of the imposition of the
fine, and places a defendant on probation under Article 45.051,
Code of Criminal Procedure, or a county court judge who follows that
procedure under Article 42.111, Code of Criminal Procedure, may not
submit a written record to the department, except that if the
justice or judge subsequently adjudicates the defendant's guilt,
the justice or judge shall submit the record not later than the
seventh [30th] day after the date on which the justice or judge
adjudicates guilt.
SECTION 4. The change in law made by this Act applies only
to a conviction, forfeiture of bail, or adjudication of guilt that
occurs on or after the effective date of this Act.
SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2009.