HB1672

HB1672 allows certain Texas Department of Motor Vehicles actions against motor carriers to take effect without a prior notice-and-hearing process, while allowing an appeal afterward. It expands an existing procedure for denial of registration, renewal or reregistration to include revocation, suspension or probation requested by the Department of Public Safety under Transportation Code 643.252(b). It took effect May 24, 2025. Final law; history.

The incorporated provision authorizes DPS to request those sanctions for a motor carrier with an unsatisfactory federal safety rating or multiple violations of specified motor-carrier safety or traffic laws or rules. The new language is tied to that DPS-requested category; it should not be described as removing a prior hearing for every possible motor-vehicle agency sanction. A motor carrier is an operator or entity transporting people or cargo, not simply a person applying for an ordinary driver’s license. Transportation Code 643.001 and 643.252(b).

An affected action may be appealed to TxDMV no later than the 26th day after the department issues notice of the action. The statute uses the notice’s issuance date, not the date the carrier happens to read it. If the appeal succeeds, the application is considered properly filed, or the revocation, suspension or probation is considered ended, on the date the favorable finding is entered. The bill does not say that merely filing an appeal pauses the action or retroactively erases the period it was in force. TxDMV must adopt implementing rules. Final law, Section 1.