By Turner of Coleman                                  H.B. No. 2938
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the verification of an applicant's social security
 1-3     number and lawful presence in the United States.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Sec. 521.101(d), Transportation Code, Personal
 1-6     Identification Certificate is amended to read as follows:
 1-7           (d)  The department may require each applicant for an
 1-8     original, renewal, or duplicate personal identification certificate
 1-9     to furnish to the department the information required by Section
1-10     521.142 and 521.147.
1-11           SECTION 2.  Sec. 521.044(a), Transportation Code, Use of
1-12     Social Security Number Information for Child Support Collection is
1-13     amended to read as follows:
1-14           (a)  Information provided on a driver's license application
1-15     that relates to the applicant's social security number and any
1-16     information regarding the verification of the social security
1-17     number may be used only by the department or disclosed only to:
1-18                 (1)  the child support enforcement division of the
1-19     attorney general's office; or
1-20                 (2)  another state entity responsible for enforcing the
1-21     payment of child support.
 2-1           SECTION 3.  Sec. 521.142, Transportation Code, Application
 2-2     for Original License is amended by amending subsection (a) and
 2-3     adding subsection (g) to read as follows:
 2-4           (a)  An application for an original license must state the
 2-5     applicant's full name and place and date of birth[.], and social
 2-6     security number.  This information must be verified by presentation
 2-7     of proof [of identity] satisfactory to the department.
 2-8           (g)  Presentation of proof requires the applicant to produce
 2-9     such documents as the Department determines is necessary in order
2-10     to insure the information contained on the application is correct.
2-11           SECTION 4.  Subchapter G, Chapter 521, Transportation Code,
2-12     is amended by adding Section 521.147 to read as follows:
2-13           Sec. 521.147  LEGAL RESIDENCE REQUIREMENT  (a)  The
2-14     department has the authority to deny or cancel any original,
2-15     renewal, or duplicate, driver's license or personal identification
2-16     certificate to any person who does not submit satisfactory proof
2-17     that the applicant's presence in the United States is authorized
2-18     under federal law.
2-19           (b)  The Department shall cancel any driver's license or
2-20     identification certificate issued to any person for whom the
2-21     department has received notice from the United States Immigration
2-22     and Naturalization Service that the person has been determined by
2-23     INS to be unlawfully within the United States.
2-24           (c)  Proof of lawful presence is required for any applicant
2-25     who submits a birth certificate or other documentary evidence
 3-1     issued by an entity other than a state or the United States.
 3-2           SECTION 5.  Subchapter G, Chapter 521, Transportation Code is
 3-3     amended by adding Section 521.148, Social Security Verification to
 3-4     read as follows:
 3-5           Sec. 521.148  Social Security Verification  (a)  The
 3-6     department has the authority to verify through the Social Security
 3-7     Administration:
 3-8                 (1)  the social security numbers provided for all
 3-9     original, duplicate, or renewal driver license and personal
3-10     identification certificates,
3-11                 (2)  all existing social security numbers currently on
3-12     file with the department.
3-13           (b)  The department has the authority to deny or cancel any
3-14     original, duplicate, or renewal driver license or personal
3-15     identification certificate if the social security number provided
3-16     by the applicant does not correspond with the information obtained
3-17     by the department through the verification process with the Social
3-18     Security Administration.
3-19           SECTION 6.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2000.
3-20           SECTION 7.  The importance of this legislation and the
3-21     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
3-22     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
3-23     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three consecutive
3-24     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
3-25     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
 4-1     passage, and it is so enacted.