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Amend Floor Amendment No. 47 to CSHB 7 by striking the text of
the amendment and substituting:
Amend CSHB 7 as follows:
(1) In the introduction to SECTION 21.01 of the bill
(committee printing page 23, line 34) strike "Subsection (e)" and
substitute "Subsections (e) and (f)".
(2) At the end of SECTION 21.01 of the bill (committee
printing page 23, between lines 50 and 51) insert:
(f) The Department of Public Safety may not spend
appropriated money to implement the issuance of driver's licenses
unless the department accepts as proof of the identity of an
applicant for issuance of a driver's license an identity document
that is issued by the government of another country, if that
document bears the applicant's photograph, full name, and date of
birth and the government of the other country has established
reasonable mechanisms by which the department can verify the
identity document. For purposes of this section, an identity
document includes a passport, a consular identity document, and a
national identity document. On the reverse side of a driver's
license, the department shall print the license holder's country of
citizenship and indicate the country of citizenship by a uniform
symbol or code on the face of the license in the space where the
department indicates a restriction or endorsement.