1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the change of a driver's license or personal
 1-3     identification certificate number of a victim of domestic violence.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  The subchapter heading to Subchapter M, Chapter
 1-6     521, Transportation Code, is amended to read as follows:
 1-7              SUBCHAPTER M. LICENSE EXPIRATION, [AND] RENEWAL,
 1-8                              AND NUMBER CHANGE
 1-9           SECTION 2.  Subchapter M, Chapter 521, Transportation Code,
1-10     is amended by adding Section 521.275 to read as follows:
1-11           Sec. 521.275. CHANGE OF DRIVER'S LICENSE OR PERSONAL
1-12     IDENTIFICATION CERTIFICATE NUMBER.  (a)  The department shall issue
1-13     to a person a new driver's license number or personal
1-14     identification certificate number on the person's showing a court
1-15     order stating that the person has been the victim of domestic
1-16     violence.
1-17           (b)  The department may require each applicant to furnish the
1-18     information required by Section 521.142.  If the applicant's name
1-19     has changed, the department may require evidence identifying the
1-20     applicant by both the former and new name.
1-21           (c)  Except as provided by Sections 521.049(c), 730.005, and
1-22     730.006, the department may not disclose:
1-23                 (1)  the changed license or certificate number; or
1-24                 (2)  the person's name or any former name.
 2-1           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
 2-2           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-3     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-4     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-5     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-6     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House
               I certify that H.B. No. 865 was passed by the House on May 4,
         1999, by a non-record vote.
                                             _______________________________
                                                 Chief Clerk of the House
               I certify that H.B. No. 865 was passed by the Senate on May
         20, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 30, Nays 0.
                                             _______________________________
                                                 Secretary of the Senate
         APPROVED:  _____________________
                            Date
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                          Governor