By Hupp, Culberson, et al.                             H.B. No. 571
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to information collected and used in connection with a
 1-3     driver's license or identification certificate; providing a
 1-4     penalty.
 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-6           SECTION 1.  Subchapter F, Chapter 521, Transportation Code,
 1-7     is amended by adding Section 521.126 to read as follows:
 1-8           Sec. 521.126.  ELECTRONICALLY READABLE INFORMATION.  (a)  The
 1-9     department may not include any information on a driver's license,
1-10     commercial driver's license, or identification certificate in an
1-11     electronically readable form other than the information printed on
1-12     the license and a physical description of the licensee.
1-13           (b)  The department shall take necessary steps to ensure that
1-14     the information is used only for law enforcement or governmental
1-15     purposes.
1-16           (c)  Unauthorized use of the information is a Class A
1-17     misdemeanor.
1-18           SECTION 2.  This Act applies only to a driver's license,
1-19     commercial driver's license, or identification certificate for
1-20     which an original or renewal application is submitted on or after
1-21     the effective date of this Act.
1-22           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-23           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-24     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-1     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-2     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-3     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.