By: Phillips H.B. No. 3839
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to requirements for the issuance of a driver's license or
personal identification certificate.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Sections 521.044(a), (b), and (e),
Transportation Code, are amended to read as follows:
(a) Information provided on a driver's license or personal
identification certificate application that relates to the
applicant's social security number may be used only by the
department or disclosed only to:
(1) the child support enforcement division of the
attorney general's office;
(2) another state entity responsible for enforcing the
payment of child support;
(3) the United States Selective Service System as
provided by Section 521.147; [or]
(4) the unclaimed property division of the
comptroller's office;
(5) an agency of another state responsible for issuing
driver's licenses or identification documents.
(b) The department shall enter an applicant's social
security number in the department's electronic database but may not
print the number on the applicant's driver's license or personal
identification certificate.
(e) The department shall include in the department's
legislative appropriations requests and budgets, in quarterly
performance reports, and in audits of the department's local
offices performance measures on the percentage of complete and
correct social security numbers on driver's licenses and personal
identification certificates.
SECTION 2. Section 521.101(f), Transportation Code, are
amended to read as follows:
(f) A personal identification certificate:
(1) for an applicant who is a citizen, national, or
legal permanent resident of the United States or a refugee or asylee
lawfully admitted into the United States, [:
[(A)] expires on a date specified by the
department [if the applicant is younger than 60 years of age; or
[(B) does not expire if the applicant is 60 years of age or older];
or
(2) for an applicant not described by Subdivision (1),
expires on:
(A) the earlier of:
(i) a date specified by the department; or
(ii) the expiration date of the applicant's
authorized stay in the United States; or
(B) the first anniversary of the date of
issuance, if there is no definite expiration date for the
applicant's authorized stay in the United States.
SECTION 3. Section 521.142(g), Transportation Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(g) The department shall [may] require an applicant to
provide the applicant's social security number [only for a purpose
permitted by Section 521.044].
SECTION 4. Subchapter I, Chapter 521, Transportation Code,
is amended by adding Section 521.183 to read as follows:
Sec. 521.183. SURRENDER OF DRIVER'S LICENSE OR PERSONAL
IDENTIFICATION CERTIFICATE. (a) A person is not entitled to
receive a driver's license until the person surrenders to the
department each personal identification certificate in the
person's possession that was issued by this state.
(b) A person is not entitled to receive a personal
identification certificate until the person surrender to the
department each driver's license in the person's possession that
was issued by this state.
SECTION 5. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to
a driver's license or personal identification certificate for which
an application is submitted on or after the effective date of this
Act. A driver's license or personal identification certificate for
which an application was submitted before the effective date of
this Act is governed by the law as it existed immediately before the
effective date of this Act, and that law is continued in effect for
that purpose.
SECTION 6. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.