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SR-22 filings, county by county
The filing rule is the same in Amarillo and in Pasadena. Chapter 601 sets the requirement, the DPS takes the certificate electronically, and the two years run from your conviction wherever you live. What is not the same is the courthouse, the clerk, the fee that clerk charges, and the territory your car is rated in — and those four are what a county page is for.
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Four things
What actually changes when you cross a county line
Most of what is written about SR-22 filings is statewide and correct. These four are neither, and between them they account for almost every wasted trip and every surprise invoice:
- Which court hears the petition § 521.242
- An occupational license is granted by the court that ordered the suspension, which makes the county the unit that varies rather than the city. Some counties run one route; Harris County runs three, and which one is yours is decided by how you were suspended.
- Which clerk takes it, and whether they hand you a form Local rules
- Counties publish materially different instructions, and some publish opposite ones. One county hosts a fillable petition; another states in terms that it supplies none and the petitioner must prepare it or retain counsel. Both are correct, about different counties.
- What the filing costs at the courthouse Fee schedules
- Not the insurance premium and not the state reinstatement fee — the clerk's own charge for a petition. It is set locally, it is revised locally, and in at least one county three different official figures are live at the same time depending on which clerk you file with.
- Where the driver license offices are TxDPS
- Most SR-22 reinstatements need no office visit at all. Where one is required it is a scheduled appointment, and the offices are not evenly spread — which is worth knowing before you drive across a county to the wrong one.
What does not vary: who files the certificate (your carrier, electronically), who receives it (the DPS, never a county), how long you carry it, and what a lapse sets off. Those live on the main SR-22 page and are the same wherever you are standing.
Sources: Texas DPS — Occupational Driver License; Tex. Transp. Code ch. 601. Verified .
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Counties with their own page
- Harris County 1 verified driver license office, 4 court and clerk routes, 5 published fees
One page, and the count is the point rather than an embarrassment. A county earns a page by having verified local procedure to carry — real driver license addresses, a real court route, a real fee schedule. A county page that could be produced by swapping a name into another county's is a doorway page, and the competitor set is full of them.
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Counties we serve without a page of their own
These four are next, and each already has the part that matters most urgently — a guide to its own occupational license route, written from that county's own published instructions. What they do not yet have is a verified driver license office address, and we are not going to print one from a directory site to fill a table.
- Fort Bend County A county court at law and a justice precinct, each publishing its own workflow
- Galveston County Where the application is obtained, plus a separate CSCD monitoring program
- Brazoria County Three routes, selected by whether the matter is closed, pending, or non-felony
- Montgomery County The county hosts its own petition and proposed-order forms
And if your county is not on either list, nothing about your filing changes. The certificate is transmitted electronically, so we file for a driver in Lubbock exactly the way we file for one in Pasadena. Call (281) 484-8320 and tell us which court order you are holding.
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