By: Phillips H.B. No. 3839

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to requirements for the issuance of a driver's license or personal identification certificate.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Sections 521.044(a), (b), and (e), Transportation Code, are amended to read as follows:

(a) Information provided on a driver's license or personal identification certificate application that relates to the applicant's social security number may be used only by the department or disclosed only to:

(1) the child support enforcement division of the attorney general's office;

(2) another state entity responsible for enforcing the payment of child support;

(3) the United States Selective Service System as provided by Section 521.147; [or]

(4) the unclaimed property division of the comptroller's office;

(5) an agency of another state responsible for issuing driver's licenses or identification documents.

(b) The department shall enter an applicant's social security number in the department's electronic database but may not print the number on the applicant's driver's license or personal identification certificate.

(e) The department shall include in the department's legislative appropriations requests and budgets, in quarterly performance reports, and in audits of the department's local offices performance measures on the percentage of complete and correct social security numbers on driver's licenses and personal identification certificates.

SECTION 2. Section 521.101(f), Transportation Code, are amended to read as follows:

(f) A personal identification certificate:

(1) for an applicant who is a citizen, national, or legal permanent resident of the United States or a refugee or asylee lawfully admitted into the United States, [:

[(A)] expires on a date specified by the department [if the applicant is younger than 60 years of age; or [(B) does not expire if the applicant is 60 years of age or older]; or

(2) for an applicant not described by Subdivision (1), expires on:

(A) the earlier of:

(i) a date specified by the department; or

(ii) the expiration date of the applicant's authorized stay in the United States; or

(B) the first anniversary of the date of issuance, if there is no definite expiration date for the applicant's authorized stay in the United States.

SECTION 3. Section 521.142(g), Transportation Code, is amended to read as follows:

(g) The department shall [may] require an applicant to provide the applicant's social security number [only for a purpose permitted by Section 521.044].

SECTION 4. Subchapter I, Chapter 521, Transportation Code, is amended by adding Section 521.183 to read as follows:

Sec. 521.183. SURRENDER OF DRIVER'S LICENSE OR PERSONAL IDENTIFICATION CERTIFICATE. (a) A person is not entitled to receive a driver's license until the person surrenders to the department each personal identification certificate in the person's possession that was issued by this state.

(b) A person is not entitled to receive a personal identification certificate until the person surrender to the department each driver's license in the person's possession that was issued by this state.

SECTION 5. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to a driver's license or personal identification certificate for which an application is submitted on or after the effective date of this Act. A driver's license or personal identification certificate for which an application was submitted before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law as it existed immediately before the effective date of this Act, and that law is continued in effect for that purpose.

SECTION 6. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.