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Senate Bill 1729 |
Senate Author: Nichols et al. |
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Effective: 6-14-13 |
House Sponsor: King, Ken et al. |
Senate Bill 1729 amends the Transportation Code to authorize the Department of Public Safety (DPS) to establish a pilot program for the provision of renewal and duplicate driver's license, election identification certificate, and personal identification certificate services in a specified number of counties with certain population brackets or in a county in which DPS operates a driver's license office as a scheduled or mobile office. The bill authorizes DPS to enter into an agreement with a county commissioners court to permit county employees to provide certain administrative and ministerial services at a county office relating to the issuance of those documents. The bill prohibits such an agreement from including training to administer a driver's license examination, requires a participating county to remit the fees collected for the issuance of the documents to DPS, and provides for a county office's authority to decline or consent to provide the license and certificate services. The bill requires DPS to provide all equipment and supplies necessary to perform the services, requires DPS to adopt rules to administer the pilot program, and authorizes a county that provides the services to collect an additional fee of up to $5 for each transaction provided that relates to driver's license and personal identification certificate services only.