TITLE: Relating to the recording of a criminal offense of transporting household goods without registration in a driving record.

SUMMARY: Relating to the recording of a criminal offense of transporting household goods without registration in a driving record.

FULL TEXT:
AN ACT relating to the recording of a criminal offense of transporting household goods without registration in a driving record. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: SECTION 1. Section 643.253, Transportation Code, is amended by adding Subsections (g) and (h) to read as follows: (g) As soon as practicable after the date a person is convicted of an offense under Subsection (b), the convicting court shall notify the Department of Public Safety of the conviction. The notice must be in a form prescribed by the Department of Public Safety and must contain the person's driver's license number. (h) A conviction under Subsection (b) shall be recorded in the person's driving record maintained by the Department of Public Safety. SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this Act. An offense committed before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on the date the offense was committed, and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. For purposes of this section, an offense was committed before the effective date of this Act if any element of the offense was committed before that date. SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.