By Hupp H.B. No. 1296
76R5081 JD-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to prohibiting the Texas Department of Public Safety from
1-3 selling a photograph of a person taken in connection with the
1-4 issuance of a driver's license, commercial driver's license, or
1-5 personal identification certificate.
1-6 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-7 SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 521, Transportation Code,
1-8 is amended by adding Section 521.0505 to read as follows:
1-9 Sec. 521.0505. SALE OF PHOTOGRAPHS; COPYING UNDER PUBLIC
1-10 INFORMATION LAW. The department may not sell a photograph or a
1-11 duplicate of a photograph taken of a person by the department in
1-12 connection with the issuance of a driver's license or a personal
1-13 identification certificate to the person unless the person depicted
1-14 in the photograph consents to the sale.
1-15 SECTION 2. Subchapter C, Chapter 522, Transportation Code,
1-16 is amended by adding Section 522.033 to read as follows:
1-17 Sec. 522.033. SALE OF PHOTOGRAPHS. The department may not
1-18 sell a photograph or a duplicate of a photograph taken of a person
1-19 by the department in connection with the issuance of a commercial
1-20 driver's license to the person unless the person depicted in the
1-21 photograph consents to the sale.
1-22 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-23 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-24 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-1 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-2 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-3 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-4 passage, and it is so enacted.