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Amend CSHB 1888 (senate committee printing) by inserting the following appropriately numbered SECTIONS and renumbering subsequent sections appropriately:
SECTION ____. Section 521.059(a), Transportation Code, is amended to read as follows:
(a) The department shall establish an image verification system based on the following identifiers collected by the department under Section 521.142(b):
(1) an applicant's facial image; and
(2) an applicant's thumbprints or, if thumbprints cannot be taken, the index fingerprints of the applicant.
SECTION ____. Not later than December 31, 2015, the Texas Department of Public Safety shall delete or redact from its records any fingerprint collected from an applicant for a driver's license or personal identification certificate in a manner that does not comply with Section 521.142(b)(1), Transportation Code.