By: Dale (Senate Sponsor - Birdwell) H.B. No. 1345

(In the Senate - Received from the House May 5, 2017; May 5, 2017, read first time and referred to Committee on Transportation; May 10, 2017, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 10, 2017, sent to printer.) Click here to see the committee vote

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to a photograph on a driver's license.

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

SECTION 1. Section 521.121(a), Transportation Code, is amended to read as follows:

(a) The driver's license must include:

(1) a distinguishing number assigned by the department to the license holder;

(2) a [color] photograph of the entire face of the holder;

(3) the full name and date of birth of the holder;

(4) a brief description of the holder; and

(5) the license holder's residence address or, for a license holder using the procedure under Subsection (c), the street address of the courthouse in which the license holder or license holder's spouse serves as a federal judge or state judge.

SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to a driver's license issued or renewed on or after the effective date of this Act. A driver's license issued or renewed before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect when the license was issued, and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.

SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.

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