Texas Administrative Code
Title 1 - ADMINISTRATION
Part 7 - STATE OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATIVE HEARINGS
Chapter 159 - RULES OF PROCEDURE FOR ADMINISTRATIVE LICENSE SUSPENSION HEARINGS
Subchapter F - DISPOSITION OF CASE
Section 159.257 - Disposition of Criminal Charges and Expunction of Records
Current through Reg. 49, No. 38; September 20, 2024
(a) Except for acquittal of a criminal charge as provided by § 524.015(b) or § 724.048(c) of the Texas Transportation Code, the disposition or expunction of a criminal charge relating to an arrest that forms the basis of the ALR proceeding does not affect a driver's license suspension or bar any matter in issue in an ALR proceeding.
(b) The records of ALR proceedings at SOAH are subject to expunction only upon receipt by SOAH of a judicial court order of expunction that complies with the requirements of Texas Code of Criminal Procedure Article 55.06.
(c) A judicial court order of expunction based on the dismissal, and not the acquittal, of criminal charges does not require or authorize SOAH to expunge records relating to the ALR proceeding.
