H.B. No. 1166
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to use of social security numbers of driver's license
    1-3  applicants to assist in child support enforcement.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Chapter 173, Acts of the 47th Legislature,
    1-6  Regular Session, 1941 (Article 6687b, Vernon's Texas Civil
    1-7  Statutes), is amended by adding Section 6A to read as follows:
    1-8        Sec. 6A.  USE OF INFORMATION RELATING TO APPLICANT'S SOCIAL
    1-9  SECURITY NUMBER.  (a)  Information on a driver's license
   1-10  application relating to the applicant's social security number may
   1-11  be released to or used by the Department, the child support
   1-12  enforcement division of the attorney general's office, or another
   1-13  state entity responsible for enforcing the payment of child
   1-14  support.
   1-15        (b)  The Department shall enter an applicant's social
   1-16  security number in the Department's electronic data base but may
   1-17  not print the number on the applicant's driver's license.
   1-18        (c)  On request of a state entity responsible for
   1-19  investigating or enforcing the payment of child support, the
   1-20  Department shall provide information regarding an applicant's
   1-21  social security number.
   1-22        (d)  Information made available under this section may be
   1-23  used by the child support enforcement division of the attorney
   1-24  general's office, or another state entity responsible for enforcing
    2-1  the payment of child support, only to carry out its duties.
    2-2        SECTION 2.  The Texas Commercial Driver's License Act
    2-3  (Article 6687b-2, Revised Statutes) is amended by adding Section
    2-4  18A to read as follows:
    2-5        Sec. 18A.  RELEASE OF APPLICANT'S SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER FOR
    2-6  CHILD SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT.  (a)  Information on a driver's license
    2-7  application relating to the applicant's social security number may
    2-8  be released to or used by the Department, the child support
    2-9  enforcement division of the attorney general's office, or another
   2-10  state entity responsible for enforcing the payment of child
   2-11  support.
   2-12        (b)  The Department shall enter an applicant's social
   2-13  security number in the Department's electronic data base but may
   2-14  not print the number on the applicant's driver's license.
   2-15        (c)  On request of a state entity responsible for
   2-16  investigating or enforcing the payment of child support, the
   2-17  Department shall provide information regarding the social security
   2-18  number of an applicant for a commercial driver's license.
   2-19        (d)  Information made available under this section may be
   2-20  used by the child support enforcement division of the attorney
   2-21  general's office, or another state entity responsible for enforcing
   2-22  the payment of child support, only to carry out its duties.
   2-23        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993, and
   2-24  applies only to a license or license renewal under Chapter 173,
   2-25  Acts of the 47th Legislature, Regular Session, 1941 (Article 6687b,
   2-26  Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), or the Texas Commercial Driver's
   2-27  License Act (Article 6687b-2, Revised Statutes), for which
    3-1  application is made on or after the Act's effective date.  A
    3-2  license or license renewal for which application is made before the
    3-3  Act's effective date is subject to the law then in effect and the
    3-4  former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
    3-5        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
    3-6  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    3-7  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    3-8  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    3-9  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.