By: Montford S.B. No. 1252
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to information to be provided on application for original,
1-2 renewal, or duplicate driver's licenses and personal identification
1-3 cards; requiring all license applicants, including applicants
1-4 younger than 17 years of age, to provide fingerprints and other
1-5 required information.
1-6 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-7 SECTION 1. Section 6, Chapter 173, Acts of the 47th
1-8 Legislature, Regular Session, 1941 (Article 6687b, Vernon's Texas
1-9 Civil Statutes), is amended by adding Subsection (d) to read as
1-10 follows:
1-11 (d) All applicants for an original, renewal, or duplicate
1-12 driver's license may be required by the Department to furnish the
1-13 information required under Subsection (b) of this section.
1-14 SECTION 2. Subsection (b), Section 14A, Chapter 173, Acts of
1-15 the 47th Legislature, Regular Session, 1941 (Article 6687b,
1-16 Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
1-17 (b) All applicants for original, renewal, or duplicate
1-18 <Original applications and applications for renewal of>
1-19 identification cards may be required by the Department to furnish
1-20 the information required under Section 6(b) of this Act <shall
1-21 require information and be submitted on a form promulgated by the
1-22 Department>.
1-23 SECTION 3. Subsections (f) and (g), Section 18, Chapter 173,
2-1 Acts of the 47th Legislature, Regular Session, 1941 (Article 6687b,
2-2 Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), are amended to read as follows:
2-3 (f) <All applicants for renewal may be required by the
2-4 Department to furnish the information required under Section 6(b)
2-5 of this Act.>
2-6 <(g)> Except as provided by this subsection, the department
2-7 may by rule provide that a person with a driver's license that
2-8 expires after January 1, 1984, may renew the license by mail. A
2-9 rule adopted under this subsection may not permit renewal by mail
2-10 of a provisional or occupational license and may not permit renewal
2-11 of a license by mail if the person's individual driving record as
2-12 maintained by the department shows that the person, within four
2-13 years preceding the date of application for renewal, has been
2-14 convicted of:
2-15 (1) a moving violation, as the department may by rule
2-16 define, committed in this state; or
2-17 (2) an offense described by Section 24 of this Act.
2-18 SECTION 4. Section 51.15, Family Code, is amended by adding
2-19 Subsection (j) to read as follows:
2-20 (j) This section does not apply to fingerprints which are
2-21 required or authorized to be submitted or obtained on application
2-22 for a driver's license or personal identification card.
2-23 SECTION 5. Actions of the Department of Public Safety of the
2-24 State of Texas which occurred before the effective date of this Act
2-25 and relate to information required for driver's license
3-1 applications are validated as of the dates they occurred.
3-2 SECTION 6. The importance of this legislation and the
3-3 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
3-4 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
3-5 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
3-6 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
3-7 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
3-8 passage, and it is so enacted.