| 1 | 1 | | By: Seliger S.B. No. 779 |
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| 2 | 2 | | (In the Senate - Filed February 8, 2017; February 22, 2017, |
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| 3 | 3 | | read first time and referred to Committee on Transportation; |
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| 4 | 4 | | April 12, 2017, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 9, |
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| 5 | 5 | | Nays 0; April 12, 2017, sent to printer.) |
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| 6 | 6 | | Click here to see the committee vote |
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| 9 | 9 | | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED |
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| 10 | 10 | | AN ACT |
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| 11 | 11 | | relating to the indigent status of a person for the purposes of the |
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| 12 | 12 | | driver responsibility program. |
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| 13 | 13 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 14 | 14 | | SECTION 1. Section 708.158(a), Transportation Code, is |
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| 15 | 15 | | amended to read as follows: |
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| 16 | 16 | | (a) The department shall waive all surcharges assessed |
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| 17 | 17 | | under this chapter for a person who is indigent. For the purposes |
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| 18 | 18 | | of this section, a person is considered to be indigent if the person |
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| 19 | 19 | | provides the evidence described by Subsection (b) to the court. The |
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| 20 | 20 | | court on its own motion may inquire whether the person would like to |
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| 21 | 21 | | submit evidence to establish the person's indigent status. |
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| 22 | 22 | | SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act to Section |
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| 23 | 23 | | 708.158, Transportation Code, applies only to a trial that begins |
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| 24 | 24 | | on or after the effective date of this Act, regardless of whether |
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| 25 | 25 | | the offense occurred before, on, or after the effective date of this |
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| 26 | 26 | | Act. The state is not required to refund a surcharge collected |
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| 27 | 27 | | before the effective date of this Act. |
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| 28 | 28 | | SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives |
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| 29 | 29 | | a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as |
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| 30 | 30 | | provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this |
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| 31 | 31 | | Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this |
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| 32 | 32 | | Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |
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| 33 | 33 | | * * * * * |
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