SB2085 - Relating to prohibiting the denial of a driver's license renewal for failure to appear in court, failure to pay a fine or cost, or failure to satisfy a judgment.

  89R396 AJZ-F     By: Miles S.B. No. 2085       A BILL TO BE ENTITLED   AN ACT   relating to prohibiting the denial of a driver's license renewal   for failure to appear in court, failure to pay a fine or cost, or   failure to satisfy a judgment.          BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:          SECTION 1.  Section 133.124, Local Government Code, is   amended to read as follows:          Sec. 133.124.  ALLOCATION OF FEES TO TRANSPORTATION   ADMINISTRATIVE FEE ACCOUNT.  The transportation administrative fee   account is an account in the general revenue fund.  The account   consists of money allocated to the account under Section   133.102(e).  [ Money in the account may be appropriated only to the   Department of Public Safety to defray the administrative costs   associated with implementing Chapter 706, Transportation Code. ]          SECTION 2.  Section 521.042(f), Transportation Code, is   amended to read as follows:          (f)  Except as provided by Subsection (g) [ and Chapter 706 ],   the department may not consider a record of a conviction of a   license holder that is received by the department after the first   anniversary of the date of the conviction in a decision to impose an   enforcement action against the license holder, including a decision   to suspend, revoke, or deny renewal of the license holder's driver's   license.          SECTION 3.  The following provisions of the Transportation   Code are repealed:                (1)  Section 521.317;                (2)  Section 521.3452(b); and                (3)  Chapter 706.          SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.