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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