By:  Montford                                         S.B. No. 1252
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to information to be provided upon application for
    1-2  original, renewal, or duplicate driver license and personal
    1-3  identification cards; requiring all license applicants, including
    1-4  applicants younger than 17 years of age, to provide fingerprints
    1-5  and other required information.
    1-6        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-7        SECTION 1.  Section 6, Texas Driver License Act (Article
    1-8  6687b, Revised Statutes), is amended by adding Subsection (d), to
    1-9  read as follows:
   1-10        (d)  All applicants for an original, renewal, or duplicate
   1-11  driver's license may be required by the Department to furnish the
   1-12  information required under Subsection (b) of this section.
   1-13        SECTION 2.  Subsection (b), Section 14A, Texas Driver License
   1-14  Act (Article 6687b, Revised Statutes), is amended to read as
   1-15  follows:
   1-16        (b)  All applicants for original, renewal, or duplicate
   1-17  <Original applications and applications for renewal of>
   1-18  identification cards <shall require information and be submitted on
   1-19  a form promulgated by the Department> may be required by the
   1-20  Department to furnish the information required under Section 6(b)
   1-21  of this Act.
   1-22        SECTION 3.  Section 18, Texas Driver License Act (Article
   1-23  6687b, Revised Statutes), is amended by deleting Subsection (f), as
    2-1  follows:
    2-2        <(f)  All applicants for renewal may be required by the
    2-3  Department to furnish the information required under Section 6(b)
    2-4  of this Act.>
    2-5        SECTION 4.  Section 51.15, Family Code, is amended by adding
    2-6  Subsection (j) to read as follows:
    2-7        (j)  This section does not apply to fingerprints which are
    2-8  required or authorized to be submitted or obtained upon application
    2-9  for a driver's license or personal identification card.
   2-10        SECTION 5.  Actions of the Texas Department of Public Safety
   2-11  which occurred before the effective date of this Act and relate to
   2-12  information required for driver license applications are validated
   2-13  as of the dates they occurred.
   2-14        SECTION 6.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-15  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-16  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-17  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-18  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-19  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-20  passage, and it is so enacted.