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.