By:  Armbrister                                       S.B. No. 1268

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

                                       AN ACT

 1-1     relating to disclosure of driver's license record information held

 1-2     by the Department of Public Safety of the State of Texas.

 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Subsection (a), Section 521.046, Transportation

 1-5     Code, is amended to read as follows:

 1-6           (a)  In addition to the information authorized to be released

 1-7     under Section 521.045, on receipt of a written request and payment

 1-8     of a $6 fee, the department may disclose that information and

 1-9     information regarding each reported motor vehicle moving violation,

1-10     as defined by department rule, resulting in a traffic law

1-11     conviction and each motor vehicle accident in which the individual

1-12     received a citation, by date and location, within the three years

1-13     preceding the date of the request, to a person who:

1-14                 (1)  demonstrates a legitimate need for the

1-15     information; and

1-16                 (2)  submits to the department the individual's

1-17     driver's license number or the individual's full name and date of

1-18     birth.

1-19           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-20           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-21     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-22     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-23     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

 2-1     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.