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.