By: Averitt  S.B. No. 1251
         (In the Senate - Filed March 6, 2007; March 14, 2007, read
  first time and referred to Committee on Transportation and Homeland
  Security; April 19, 2007, reported favorably by the following
  vote:  Yeas 7, Nays 2; April 19, 2007, sent to printer.)
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to the access, use, or retention of certain electronically
  readable information on a driver's license, commercial driver's
  license, or personal identification certificate; providing
  penalties.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subsection (b), Section 521.126, Transportation
  Code, is amended to read as follows:
         (b)  Except as provided by Subsections (d), (e), and (g), a
  person commits an offense if the person:
               (1)  accesses or uses electronically readable
  information derived from a driver's license, commercial driver's
  license, or personal identification certificate without the
  consent of the license or certificate holder; or
               (2)  compiles or maintains a database of electronically
  readable information derived from driver's licenses, commercial
  driver's licenses, or personal identification certificates without
  the consent of each license or certificate holder whose information
  is compiled or maintained.
         SECTION 2.  (a)  The change in law made by this Act applies
  only to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this
  Act. For the purposes of this section, an offense is committed
  before the effective date of this Act if any element of the offense
  occurs before that date.
         (b)  An offense committed before the effective date of this
  Act is covered by the law in effect when the offense was committed,
  and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2007.
 
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