By: Burns (Senate Sponsor - Fallon) H.B. No. 4195

(In the Senate - Received from the House May 6, 2019; May 6, 2019, read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice; May 15, 2019, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 15, 2019, sent to printer.) Click here to see the committee vote

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to photographs on certain state-issued identification cards.

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

SECTION 1. Section 411.179(a), Government Code, is amended to read as follows:

(a) The department by rule shall adopt the form of the license. A license must include:

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

(2) a statement of the period for which the license is effective;

(3) a [color] photograph of the license holder;

(4) the license holder's full name, date of birth, hair and eye color, height, weight, and signature;

(5) the license holder's residence address or, as provided by Subsection (d), the street address of the courthouse in which the license holder or license holder's spouse serves as a federal judge or the license holder serves as a state judge;

(6) the number of a driver's license or an identification certificate issued to the license holder by the department; and

(7) the designation "VETERAN" if required under Subsection (e).

SECTION 2. Section 1702.232(c), Occupations Code, is amended to read as follows:

(c) The pocket card must:

(1) state the name of the registrant;

(2) contain a [color] photograph, affixed to the pocket card by the board at the time the card is issued, and the signature of the registrant;

(3) state the date the card was issued and the card's expiration date; and

(4) state each endorsement held by the registrant and the date the endorsement expires.

SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.

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