By: Harper-Brown H.B. No. 3293
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the transfer of powers and duties relating to driver's
licenses and personal identification cards from the Department of
Public Safety to the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. (a) The director of the Department of Public
Safety and the executive director of the Texas Department of Motor
Vehicles shall collaborate to prepare a comprehensive plan to
transfer all of the programs operated by the Department of Public
Safety relating to driver's licenses or personal identification
cards from the Department of Public Safety to the Texas Department
of Motor Vehicles.
(b) The plan shall:
(1) identify all employees, money, contracts, leases,
rights, property, records, and bonds and other obligations of the
Department of Public Safety relating to driver's licenses and
personal identification cards; and
(2) be drafted to ensure the smooth transition of all
item listed above from the Department of Public Safety to the Texas
Department of Motor Vehicles.
(c) Not later than September 1, 2012 the report shall be
submitted to:
(1) the chair and all members of the Senate Committee
on Transportation and Homeland Security;
(2) the chair and all members of the House Committee on
Transportation; and
(3) the governor.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.