Bill Text: TX HB162 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled


Bill Title: Relating to the period of certain driver's license suspensions.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)

Status: (Passed) 2019-06-10 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB162 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-HB162-Enrolled.html
 
 
  H.B. No. 162
 
 
 
 
AN ACT
  relating to the period of certain driver's license suspensions.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 521.293, Transportation Code, is amended
  to read as follows:
         Sec. 521.293.  PERIOD OF SUSPENSION UNDER SECTION 521.292.
  If [(a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), if] the person does
  not request a hearing, the period of license suspension under
  Section 521.292 is 90 days.
         [(b)     If the department determines that the person engaged in
  conduct described by Section 521.292(a)(1), the period of license
  suspension is extended for an additional period of the lesser of:
               [(1)  the term of the original suspension; or
               [(2)  one year.]
         SECTION 2.  Section 521.312(b), Transportation Code, is
  amended to read as follows:
         (b)  Except as provided by Subsection (c)[, Section
  521.293(b),] or Subchapter O, the department may not suspend a
  license for a period that exceeds one year.
         SECTION 3.  The change in law made by this Act applies only
  to a driver's license suspension based on conduct that occurred on
  or after the effective date of this Act. A driver's license
  suspension based on conduct that occurred before the effective date
  of this Act is governed by the law in effect on the date the conduct
  occurred, and the former law is continued in effect for that
  purpose. For purposes of this Act, conduct occurred before the
  effective date of this Act if any element of the conduct occurred
  before that date.
         SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.
 
 
  ______________________________ ______________________________
     President of the Senate Speaker of the House     
 
 
         I certify that H.B. No. 162 was passed by the House on April
  12, 2019, by the following vote:  Yeas 144, Nays 0, 1 present, not
  voting.
 
  ______________________________
  Chief Clerk of the House   
 
 
         I certify that H.B. No. 162 was passed by the Senate on May
  21, 2019, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0.
 
  ______________________________
  Secretary of the Senate    
  APPROVED:  _____________________
                     Date          
   
            _____________________
                   Governor       
feedback