1-1 By: Montford S.B. No. 1252
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 10, 1995; March 16, 1995, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
1-4 April 7, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 10,
1-5 Nays 0; April 7, 1995, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to information to be provided on application for original,
1-9 renewal, or duplicate driver's licenses and personal identification
1-10 cards; requiring all license applicants, including applicants
1-11 younger than 17 years of age, to provide fingerprints and other
1-12 required information.
1-13 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-14 SECTION 1. Section 6, Chapter 173, Acts of the 47th
1-15 Legislature, Regular Session, 1941 (Article 6687b, Vernon's Texas
1-16 Civil Statutes), is amended by adding Subsection (d) to read as
1-17 follows:
1-18 (d) All applicants for an original, renewal, or duplicate
1-19 driver's license may be required by the Department to furnish the
1-20 information required under Subsection (b) of this section.
1-21 SECTION 2. Subsection (b), Section 14A, Chapter 173, Acts of
1-22 the 47th Legislature, Regular Session, 1941 (Article 6687b,
1-23 Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
1-24 (b) All applicants for original, renewal, or duplicate
1-25 <Original applications and applications for renewal of>
1-26 identification cards may be required by the Department to furnish
1-27 the information required under Section 6(b) of this Act <shall
1-28 require information and be submitted on a form promulgated by the
1-29 Department>.
1-30 SECTION 3. Subsections (f) and (g), Section 18, Chapter 173,
1-31 Acts of the 47th Legislature, Regular Session, 1941 (Article 6687b,
1-32 Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), are amended to read as follows:
1-33 (f) <All applicants for renewal may be required by the
1-34 Department to furnish the information required under Section 6(b)
1-35 of this Act.>
1-36 <(g)> Except as provided by this subsection, the department
1-37 may by rule provide that a person with a driver's license that
1-38 expires after January 1, 1984, may renew the license by mail. A
1-39 rule adopted under this subsection may not permit renewal by mail
1-40 of a provisional or occupational license and may not permit renewal
1-41 of a license by mail if the person's individual driving record as
1-42 maintained by the department shows that the person, within four
1-43 years preceding the date of application for renewal, has been
1-44 convicted of:
1-45 (1) a moving violation, as the department may by rule
1-46 define, committed in this state; or
1-47 (2) an offense described by Section 24 of this Act.
1-48 SECTION 4. Section 51.15, Family Code, is amended by adding
1-49 Subsection (j) to read as follows:
1-50 (j) This section does not apply to fingerprints which are
1-51 required or authorized to be submitted or obtained on application
1-52 for a driver's license or personal identification card.
1-53 SECTION 5. Actions of the Department of Public Safety of the
1-54 State of Texas which occurred before the effective date of this Act
1-55 and relate to information required for driver's license
1-56 applications are validated as of the dates they occurred.
1-57 SECTION 6. The importance of this legislation and the
1-58 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-59 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-60 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-61 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-62 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-63 passage, and it is so enacted.
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