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78R3297 DWS-D


By:  Hunter                                                       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.