78R3297 DWS-D
By: Hunter, et al. H.B. No. 479
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to registration with the Selective Service System of
certain applicants for a driver's license or personal
identification certificate.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 521.147, Transportation Code, is amended
to read as follows:
Sec. 521.147. [OPTIONAL] REGISTRATION WITH SELECTIVE
SERVICE SYSTEM. (a) After an application for an original, renewal,
or duplicate driver's license or personal identification
certificate is submitted by a male applicant who on the date of the
application is at least 18 years of age but younger than 26 years of
age, the department shall send in an electronic format to the United
States Selective Service System the information from the
application necessary to register the applicant under the Military
Selective Service Act (50 U.S.C. App. Section 451 et seq.), as
amended.
(b) Before accepting an application from an applicant to
which this section applies, the department shall notify the
applicant that the application for a driver's license or personal
identification certificate also constitutes registration with the
United States Selective Service System for persons who are subject
to registration and who have not previously registered. The
applicant's submission of the application following this
notification constitutes the applicant's consent to the sending of
the information and the registration. [The department shall develop
by rule a selective service consent statement as a part of the
application for an original, renewal, or duplicate driver's license
or personal identification certificate. The consent statement must
include a place to indicate consent or declination to register with
the United States Selective Service System and must state the
benefits and penalties associated with consent or declination to
register. The department shall present the statement to each
applicant who is subject to registration with the Selective Service
System and record the applicant's response. A response is required
to complete the application for a license or certificate for such an
applicant. The department shall forward to the Selective Service
System, in an electronic format, only the information necessary for
registration of an applicant consenting to registration.]
(c) [(b)] In addition to the notification [statement]
required by Subsection (b) [(a)], the department may conspicuously
post at each location where applications for driver's licenses and
personal identification certificates are accepted one or more
signs, in English and Spanish, providing the information contained
in the notification [statement].
(d) This section does not apply to an applicant concerning
whom the department has previously sent information to the
Selective Service System under Subsection (a).
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2003, and
applies only to an application submitted on or after that date.