Sec. 16.003.  FELONY CONVICTION.  Each weekday the Department of Public Safety is regularly open for business, the department shall:
(1)  prepare an abstract of each final judgment received by the department convicting a person 18 years of age or older who is a resident of the state of a felony; and
(2)  file each abstract with the secretary of state.
Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 211, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1986.  Amended by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 916, Sec. 12, eff. Sept. 1, 1993;  Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 1366, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1999;  Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1178, Sec. 2, eff. Jan. 1, 2002.
Amended by: 
Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 1105 (H.B. 2280), Sec. 5, eff. January 1, 2006.