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  80R7647 JRJ-D
 
  By: Whitmire S.B. No. 955
 
 
 
   
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to use of electronically readable information on a
driver's license or personal identification certificate by certain
organizations that sponsor youth programs.
       BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
       SECTION 1.  Section 521.126(d), Transportation Code, as
amended by Chapters 391 and 1189, Acts of the 79th Legislature,
Regular Session, 2005, is amended to read as follows:
       (d)  The prohibition provided by Subsection (b) does not
apply to a person who accesses, uses, compiles, or maintains a
database of the information for a law enforcement or governmental
purpose, including:
             (1)  an officer or employee of the department carrying
out law enforcement or government purposes;
             (2)  a peace officer, as defined by Article 2.12, Code
of Criminal Procedure, acting in the officer's official capacity;
             (3)  a license deputy, as defined by Section 12.702,
Parks and Wildlife Code, issuing a license, stamp, tag, permit, or
other similar item through use of a point-of-sale system under
Section 12.703, Parks and Wildlife Code;
             (4)  a person acting as authorized by Section 109.61,
Alcoholic Beverage Code; [or]
             (5)  a person establishing the identity of a voter
under Chapter 63, Election Code;
             (6) [(5)]  a person acting as authorized by Section
161.0825, Health and Safety Code; or
             (7)  a person screening an individual to work with
children if the person is an employee of a public school district or
an organization exempt from federal income tax under Section
501(c)(3), Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, that sponsors
a program for youth.
       SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2007.