By Hartnett                                           H.B. No. 1945
       74R91 GCH-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to information required of applicants for an original
    1-3  driver's license.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 6(b), Chapter 173, Acts of the 47th
    1-6  Legislature, Regular Session, 1941 (Article 6687b, Vernon's Texas
    1-7  Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
    1-8        (b)  Every said original application shall state the
    1-9  applicant's full name, place and date of birth, and that the
   1-10  applicant is a citizen or legal resident of the United States of
   1-11  America, such information to be verified by presentation of proof
   1-12  <of identity> satisfactory to the Department.  Such application
   1-13  shall also include the thumbprints, or if for any reason
   1-14  thumbprints cannot be taken, the index fingerprints of the
   1-15  applicant, and shall state the sex and residence address of the
   1-16  applicant, and briefly describe the applicant, and shall state
   1-17  whether the applicant has theretofore been licensed to drive a
   1-18  motor vehicle and, if so, when and by what state or country, and
   1-19  whether any such license has ever been suspended or revoked or
   1-20  whether an application has ever been refused, and, if so, the date
   1-21  of and reason for such suspension, revocation, or refusal, and
   1-22  whether the applicant, if less than twenty-five (25) years of age,
   1-23  has completed a driver education course approved by the Department,
   1-24  and such other information as the Department may require to
    2-1  determine the applicant's identity, competency and eligibility.
    2-2  Information about the medical history of an applicant supplied to
    2-3  the Department or a Medical Advisory Board is for the confidential
    2-4  use of the Department or the Board and may not be divulged to any
    2-5  person or used as evidence in a legal proceeding except a
    2-6  proceeding under Section 22 or Section 31 of this Act.
    2-7        SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies only
    2-8  to an application for an original driver's license that is made on
    2-9  or after the effective date of this Act.
   2-10        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   2-11        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-12  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-13  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-14  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-15  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.