82R1121 VOO-D

By: Flynn, Farias H.B. No. 80

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.).

(b) An application under this section must give written

notice to an applicant that the application also constitutes

registration with the United States Selective Service System for

persons who are subject to registration and have not previously

registered. The notice must be conspicuous on the application and

state: "By submitting this application, I am consenting to

registration with the United States Selective Service System if my

registration is required by federal law."

(c) The applicant's submission of the application following

this notification constitutes the applicant's consent to the

sending of the information and the [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.

(d) [(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].

(e) Subsections (a) and (c) do not apply to an applicant

concerning whom the department has previously sent information to

the Selective Service System.

SECTION 2. This Act applies only to an application for the

issuance of a driver's license or personal identification

certificate submitted on or after the effective date of this Act.

SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.