Showing posts with label driver's license. Show all posts
Showing posts with label driver's license. Show all posts
Monday, May 7, 2012

DPS makes it harder for immigrants to obtain a driver's license

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Starting today anyone who wishes to obtain a Texas driver's license must present proof that they have been residing in the State of Texa...
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Wednesday, July 27, 2011

New website to check driver license status

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If you need to check the driver's license status of yourself or a client, here's a new website from the State of Texas that will all...
Saturday, July 9, 2011

DPS policy now law

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A controversial DPS policy is now law thanks to an amendment to the education funding bill added by Rep. Jim Pitts (R-Waxahachie). Back in...
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Friday, January 7, 2011

The scarlet D

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Texas State Representative Pete Gallego (D-Alpine) wins the Hester Prynne Award for his proposal to require a special symbol on the driver...
Saturday, December 11, 2010

Two strikes and you're out

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How does a permanent license revocation for a second DWI conviction sound to you? State Sen. Jane Nelson (R-Flower Mound) has filed SB231...
Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Welcome to the 21st century

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The Texas Department of Public Safety has discovered what a wonderful thing the internet can be -- if you know how to use it. For years a mo...
Friday, October 22, 2010

State changes course on driver surcharges

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The Texas Department of Public Safety has finally come to the conclusion that hitting motorists with surcharge after surcharge is not workin...
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Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Four whom the bell tolls

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The scene fades in... A lawyer walks into an unnamed courtroom on the 5th floor of the Civil Courthouse. He places his briefcase down on the...
Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Four the love of...

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Yesterday I dared to enter the Harris County Civil Courthouse to ask a judge to issue an occupational driver's license to a client of mi...
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Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Turning drunk driving into a money-making enterprise

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A former state district judge from McLennan County, David Hodges, has joined the growing chorus of reasonable minds that believe the costs o...
Sunday, March 21, 2010

Texas taking a second look at surcharges

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Today's Houston Chronicle ran an excellent article on the trouble people find themselves in as a result of the Texas Department of Publi...
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Friday, April 17, 2009

Implied consent: a one-act drama

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Somewhere in Texas at a Department of Public Safety driver's license office... CLERK: Next. APPLICANT: I'm here to get a driver'...
Tuesday, April 14, 2009

A neverending circle

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I came across an interesting e-mail today about the surcharges the Texas Department of Public Safety impose upon Texas motorists. The author...
Friday, April 10, 2009

Judge shoots down DPS driver's license plan

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Over the last few months, the Texas Department of Public Safety has been working on implementing a plan by which only people who could prov...
Monday, January 12, 2009

DWI v. DUI

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In Texas you commit the offense of driving while intoxicated if, while operating a motor vehicle in a public place, you have either: (1) lo...
Monday, November 17, 2008

Update on DPS' call for driver's license checkpoints

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On Friday, under pressure from state legislators, the DPS withdrew its request for an Attorney General's opinion on the legality of set...
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Wednesday, November 12, 2008

DPS calls for driver's license checkpoints

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Last month I wrote about the DPS' new policy of not renewing or issuing new Texas drivers' licenses to anyone who can't prove t...
Thursday, October 9, 2008

Another knee-jerk reaction

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According to the Houston Chronicle , the Texas Department of Public Safety has decided that, as of October 1, 2008, an applicant for a Texas...