By: Wentworth S.B. No. 132
 
  (Flynn)
 
   
 
 
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.