By: Wentworth S.B. No. 132
(Flynn)
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to registration with the Selective Service System of
certain applicants for a driver's license or personal
identification certificate.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 521.147, Transportation Code, is amended
to read as follows:
Sec. 521.147. [OPTIONAL] REGISTRATION WITH SELECTIVE
SERVICE SYSTEM. (a) After an application for an original,
renewal, or duplicate driver's license or personal identification
certificate is submitted by a male applicant who on the date of the
application is at least 18 years of age but younger than 26 years of
age, the department shall send in an electronic format to the United
States Selective Service System the information from the
application necessary to register the applicant under the Military
Selective Service Act (50 U.S.C. App. Section 451 et seq.).
(b) An application under this section must give written
notice to an applicant that the application also constitutes
registration with the United States Selective Service System for
persons who are subject to registration and have not previously
registered. The notice must be conspicuous on the application and
state: "By submitting this application, I am consenting to
registration with the United States Selective Service System if my
registration is required by federal law."
(c) The applicant's submission of the application following
this notification constitutes the applicant's consent to the
sending of the information and the [The department shall develop by
rule a selective service consent statement as a part of the
application for an original, renewal, or duplicate driver's license
or personal identification certificate. The consent statement must
include a place to indicate consent or declination to register with
the United States Selective Service System and must state the
benefits and penalties associated with consent or declination to
register. The department shall present the statement to each
applicant who is subject to registration with the Selective Service
System and record the applicant's response. A response is required
to complete the application for a license or certificate for such an
applicant. The department shall forward to the Selective Service
System, in an electronic format, only the information necessary for
registration of an applicant consenting to] registration.
(d) [(b)] In addition to the notification [statement]
required by Subsection (b) [(a)], the department may conspicuously
post at each location where applications for driver's licenses and
personal identification certificates are accepted one or more
signs, in English and Spanish, providing the information contained
in the notification [statement].
(e) Subsections (a) and (c) do not apply to an applicant
concerning whom the department has previously sent information to
the Selective Service System.
SECTION 2. This Act applies only to an application for the
issuance of a driver's license or personal identification
certificate submitted on or after the effective date of this Act.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.