By: Fallon  S.B. No. 2046
         (In the Senate - Filed March 7, 2019; March 21, 2019, read
  first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice;
  May 1, 2019, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 7,
  Nays 0; May 1, 2019, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to the photograph on certain forms of state-issued
  identification.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  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 2.  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 3.  The changes in law made by this Act apply only to
  a pocket card or license issued or renewed on or after the effective
  date of this Act.  A pocket card or license issued or renewed before
  the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect when
  the pocket card or license was issued, and the former law is
  continued in effect for that purpose.
         SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.
 
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