By Najera                                              H.B. No. 116
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to registration with the Selective Service System of
 1-3     certain applicants for a driver's license or personal
 1-4     identification certificate.
 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-6           SECTION 1.  Subchapter G, Chapter 521, Transportation Code,
 1-7     is amended by adding Section 521.147 to read as follows:
 1-8           Sec. 521.147.  REGISTRATION WITH SELECTIVE SERVICE SYSTEM.
 1-9     (a)  After an application for an original, renewal, or duplicate
1-10     driver's license or personal identification certificate is
1-11     submitted by a male applicant who on the date of the application is
1-12     at least 18 years of age but younger than 26 years of age, the
1-13     department shall send in an electronic format to the United States
1-14     Selective Service System the information from the application
1-15     necessary to register the applicant under the Military Selective
1-16     Service Act (50 U.S.C. App. Section 451 et seq.), as amended.
1-17           (b)  Before accepting an application from an applicant to
1-18     which this section applies, the department shall orally notify the
1-19     applicant that the application for a driver's license or personal
1-20     identification certificate also constitutes registration with the
1-21     United States Selective Service System for persons who are subject
1-22     to registration and who have not previously registered.  The
1-23     applicant's submission of application following this notification
1-24     constitutes the applicant's consent to the sending of the
 2-1     information and the registration.
 2-2           (c)  In addition to the notification required by Subsection
 2-3     (b), the department may conspicuously post at each location where
 2-4     applications for driver's licenses and personal identification
 2-5     certificates are accepted one or more signs, in English and
 2-6     Spanish, providing the information contained in the notification.
 2-7           (d)  This section does not apply to an applicant concerning
 2-8     whom the department has previously sent information to the
 2-9     Selective Service System under Subsection (a).
2-10           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2001, and
2-11     applies only to an application submitted on or after that date.