2025 · Regular session · House bill
HB4804
HB4804 extends an existing automatic-revocation rule to people required to register under Texas’s terrorist-offender registration law.
Official caption: Relating to the revocation of a driver's license or personal identification certificate and to disqualification from operating a commercial motor vehicle.
Official report lists House author(s): Hefner. This does not identify sponsors or amendment drafters.
Bill explanation published · Version and amendment review scope is stated below · Individual amendment records may not be separately annotated.
Bill highlights
Selected points from the published explanation. Follow each point to its source-linked context; conditions and limits may matter.
- HB4804 extends an existing automatic-revocation rule to people required to register under Texas’s terrorist-offender registration law.
- The underlying terrorist-offender law already required an in-person application within 30 days after the specified release or departmental-notice event and annual in-person renewal while registration is required.
- Separately, the bill repeals two commercial-driver provisions.
- The act took effect September 1, 2025.
What does it do?
HB4804 extends an existing automatic-revocation rule to people required to register under Texas’s terrorist-offender registration law. If such a person fails to apply for the required renewal, the person’s driver’s license or state personal identification certificate is automatically revoked. The rule already covered specified sex-offender registrants. The new trigger is failure to meet the renewal requirement—not simply being suspected of terrorism. Final law
The underlying terrorist-offender law already required an in-person application within 30 days after the specified release or departmental-notice event and annual in-person renewal while registration is required. HB4804 adds the revocation consequence; it does not create that registry or those renewal duties. Code of Criminal Procedure Article 65.058
Separately, the bill repeals two commercial-driver provisions. Former Transportation Code Section 521.297(b) provided a 40-day-after-notice effective date for disqualifications under Section 522.081(a). Former Section 522.087(b) applied specified notice, hearing and judicial-review procedures to certain commercial-driving disqualifications, including categories involving repeated serious traffic violations, railroad-crossing violations and repeat serious offenses. Those statutory procedures are removed. The bill does not repeal the underlying disqualifying offenses or their disqualification periods. Other provisions remain, including the rule that disqualifications under Section 522.081(a) run consecutively to an existing disqualification. Official House analysis of the repealed provisions · Commercial-driver law
The act took effect September 1, 2025. It does not establish one new effective-date or appeal rule for every type of commercial-driver case; it removes the two specified provisions.
What changed along the way?
The introduced bill already included the driver’s-license revocation expansion and both commercial-driver repeals. The House committee substitute added the parallel revocation provision for personal identification certificates. The House-passed, Senate committee and final versions retained the substitute without further operative changes. No separately numbered floor amendments appear in the official index. The governor signed the bill June 20, 2025. History · Text versions · Amendment index
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Official bill versions
Compare the published text versions in the official text index. A change is not attributed to a specific amendment here without a verified record.
Who could benefit—and who could bear the costs?
The revocation change gives the Department of Public Safety another enforcement mechanism for existing registration-related renewal duties. Affected people can lose driving privileges or state identification when they do not renew as required. Commercial drivers in the repealed procedure’s categories lose that particular state statutory hearing-and-review route, potentially affecting their ability to keep working while disputing a disqualification.
The House analysis says the author’s purpose for the commercial-driver changes was to address federal-compliance concerns and possible risks to highway funding or the state’s commercial-license program. That stated rationale is not a finding here that a federal penalty was imposed or avoided. The latest fiscal note anticipates no significant state or local-government fiscal impact and assumes implementation costs can be absorbed with existing resources; it does not quantify lost wages or other individual costs.
Official sources
- Bill history and latest recorded action
- Bill versions, analyses and fiscal notes
- Action history and votes
- Amendment index
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