Tex. Transp. Code § 521.320 · Subchapter N. GENERAL PROVISIONS RELATING TO LICENSE DENIAL, SUSPENSION, OR REVOCATION
SUSPENSION FOR CERTAIN CRIMINAL MISCHIEF; LICENSE DENIAL.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A court may order the department to suspend a person's driver's license on conviction of an offense under Section 28.08, Penal Code.
(b) A court may order the department to deny an application for reinstatement or issuance of a driver's license to a person convicted of an offense under Section 28.08, Penal Code, who, on the date of the conviction, did not hold a driver's license.
(c) The period of suspension under this section is one year after the date of a final conviction. The period of license denial is one year after the date the person applies to the department for reinstatement or issuance of a driver's license.
(d) The department may not reinstate a driver's license suspended under Subsection (a) unless the person whose license was suspended applies to the department for reinstatement.
(e) A person whose license is suspended under Subsection (a) remains eligible to receive an occupational driver's license under Subchapter L.
(f) For the purposes of this section, a person is convicted of an offense regardless of whether sentence is imposed or the person is placed on community supervision for the offense under Chapter 42A, Code of Criminal Procedure.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 593, Sec. 5, eff. Sept. 1, 1997. Renumbered from Sec. 521.314 by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 1117, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 2000.
Amended by:
Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 770 (H.B. 2299), Sec. 2.87, eff. January 1, 2017.
Acts 2023, 88th Leg., R.S., Ch. 386 (H.B. 291), Sec. 3, eff. September 1, 2023.
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