By: Patterson, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Hagenbuch) H.B. No. 647

(In the Senate - Received from the House April 10, 2025; April 14, 2025, read first time and referred to Committee on Transportation; May 14, 2025, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 14, 2025, sent to printer.) Click here to see the committee vote

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the removal of certain restrictions imposed on driver's licenses; authorizing a fee.

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

SECTION 1. Section 521.221, Transportation Code, is amended by adding Subsection (e) to read as follows:

(e) The department:

(1) shall remove a restriction that requires the license holder to wear corrective lenses for vision and mail to the license holder a new driver's license that does not include the restriction if the license holder submits to the department:

(A) a written statement from a licensed physician or optometrist verifying that the license holder's vision has been surgically corrected and the license holder no longer requires corrective lenses for vision; and

(B) the required fee;

(2) shall establish a process by which a person may submit to the department electronically or by mail the form and fee described by Subdivision (1); and

(3) may not mail a new driver's license under this subsection to a person whose driver's license record indicates that the person is subject to the registration requirements of Chapter 62, Code of Criminal Procedure.

SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.

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