By Hochberg, Coleman H.B. No. 1827
76R6526 DWS-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to information to be included on a driver's license.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 521.125, Transportation Code, is amended
1-5 to read as follows:
1-6 Sec. 521.125. MEDICAL AND EMERGENCY INFORMATION ON LICENSE.
1-7 On the reverse side of a driver's license, the department shall:
1-8 (1) print:
1-9 (A) [(1)] "Allergic Reaction to Drugs: _____";
1-10 [and]
1-11 (B) [(2)] "Directive to physician has been filed
1-12 at tel. #"; and
1-13 (C) "Emergency contact tel. #";
1-14 (2) include to the right of the statements under
1-15 Subdivisions (1)(B) and (C) a surface on which [followed by a line
1-16 that] the license holder may write [use to indicate] the
1-17 appropriate telephone number; and
1-18 (3) include to the left of each of the statements
1-19 under Subdivisions (1)(B) and (C) a box that the license holder may
1-20 use to indicate for what purpose the telephone number applies.
1-21 SECTION 2. Notwithstanding Section 521.125, Transportation
1-22 Code, as amended by this Act, the Texas Department of Public Safety
1-23 may use any materials used for driver's licenses that the
1-24 department has on the effective date of this Act regardless of
2-1 whether the materials comply with that section.
2-2 SECTION 3. 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,
2-7 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-8 passage, and it is so enacted.