By: Schwertner, Huffines  S.B. No. 398
         (In the Senate - Filed January 29, 2015; February 2, 2015,
  read first time and referred to Committee on Transportation;
  March 16, 2015, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 8,
  Nays 1; March 16, 2015, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to fingerprints collected by the Texas Department of
  Public Safety from an applicant for a driver's license or personal
  identification certificate and used for the department's image
  verification system.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  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 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.
 
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