Bill Text: TX HB196 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub


Bill Title: Relating to allowing justice and municipal courts to access the financial responsibility verification program.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-05-09 - Placed on General State Calendar [HB196 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-HB196-Comm_Sub.html
  86R16340 BEE-D
 
  By: Stephenson H.B. No. 196
 
  Substitute the following for H.B. No. 196:
 
  By:  Lucio III C.S.H.B. No. 196
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to allowing justice and municipal courts to access the
  financial responsibility verification program.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter N, Chapter 601, Transportation Code,
  is amended by adding Section 601.455 to read as follows:
         Sec. 601.455.  ACCESS BY COURT. A justice or municipal court
  may access the verification program established under this
  subchapter to verify financial responsibility for the purpose of
  court proceedings.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
  a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
  provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this
  Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
  Act takes effect September 1, 2019.
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