By Hochberg, Coleman                                  H.B. No. 1827
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                                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.