1-1     By:  Puente (Senate Sponsor - Nelson)                  H.B. No. 865
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House May 5, 1999;
 1-3     May 6, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on
 1-4     Jurisprudence; May 11, 1999, reported favorably by the following
 1-5     vote:  Yeas 4, Nays 0; May 11, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to the change of a driver's license or personal
 1-9     identification certificate number of a victim of domestic violence.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  The subchapter heading to Subchapter M, Chapter
1-12     521, Transportation Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-13              SUBCHAPTER M. LICENSE EXPIRATION, [AND] RENEWAL,
1-14                              AND NUMBER CHANGE
1-15           SECTION 2.  Subchapter M, Chapter 521, Transportation Code,
1-16     is amended by adding Section 521.275 to read as follows:
1-17           Sec. 521.275. CHANGE OF DRIVER'S LICENSE OR PERSONAL
1-18     IDENTIFICATION CERTIFICATE NUMBER.  (a)  The department shall issue
1-19     to a person a new driver's license number or personal
1-20     identification certificate number on the person's showing a court
1-21     order stating that the person has been the victim of domestic
1-22     violence.
1-23           (b)  The department may require each applicant to furnish the
1-24     information required by Section 521.142.  If the applicant's name
1-25     has changed, the department may require evidence identifying the
1-26     applicant by both the former and new name.
1-27           (c)  Except as provided by Sections 521.049(c), 730.005, and
1-28     730.006, the department may not disclose:
1-29                 (1)  the changed license or certificate number; or
1-30                 (2)  the person's name or any former name.
1-31           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-32           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-33     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-34     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-35     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-36     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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