1-1     By:  Hupp, Culberson, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Nelson) H.B. No. 571
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House April 26, 1999;
 1-3     April 27, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on State
 1-4     Affairs; May 14, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:
 1-5     Yeas 7, Nays 1; May 14, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to information collected and used in connection with a
 1-9     driver's license or identification certificate; providing a
1-10     penalty.
1-11           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12           SECTION 1.  Subchapter F, Chapter 521, Transportation Code,
1-13     is amended by adding Section 521.126 to read as follows:
1-14           Sec. 521.126.  ELECTRONICALLY READABLE INFORMATION.  (a)  The
1-15     department may not include any information on a driver's license,
1-16     commercial driver's license, or identification certificate in an
1-17     electronically readable form other than the information printed on
1-18     the license and a physical description of the licensee.
1-19           (b)  The department shall take necessary steps to ensure that
1-20     the information is used only for law enforcement or governmental
1-21     purposes.
1-22           (c)  Unauthorized use of the information is a Class A
1-23     misdemeanor.
1-24           SECTION 2.  This Act applies only to a driver's license,
1-25     commercial driver's license, or identification certificate for
1-26     which an original or renewal application is submitted on or after
1-27     the effective date of this Act.
1-28           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-29           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-30     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-31     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-32     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-33     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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