S.B. No. 132
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) An application under this section must give written
notice to an applicant that information regarding alternative
service options for applicants who object to conventional military
service for religious or other conscientious reasons is available
from the department upon request.
(d) 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.
(e) [(b)] In addition to the notifications [statement]
required by Subsections (b) and (c) [Subsection (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 notifications
[statement].
(f) Subsections (a) and (d) 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.
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President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 132 passed the Senate on
March 24, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0; and that
the Senate concurred in House amendments on May 17, 2011, by the
following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 132 passed the House, with
amendments, on May 7, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 120,
Nays 0, one present not voting.
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Chief Clerk of the House
Approved:
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Date
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Governor