BILL ANALYSIS H.B. 3016 By: Fletcher Homeland Security & Public Safety Committee Report (Unamended) BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Interested parties assert that current law lacks clarity with regard to the types of fingerprint information the Department of Public Safety is allowed to collect from a driver's license applicant. H.B. 3016 seeks to address this issue. CRIMINAL JUSTICE IMPACT It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly create a criminal offense, increase the punishment for an existing criminal offense or category of offenses, or change the eligibility of a person for community supervision, parole, or mandatory supervision. RULEMAKING AUTHORITY It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution. ANALYSIS H.B. 3016 amends the Transportation Code to require an application for an original driver's license to include the applicant's thumbprints and fingerprints and to remove the option for the applicant to provide the applicant's index fingerprints if thumbprints cannot be taken. The bill clarifies the duty of the Department of Public Safety to authenticate thumbprints and fingerprints provided by an applicant for a personal identification certificate, driver's license, or permit using image comparison technology. EFFECTIVE DATE September 1, 2015.
BILL ANALYSIS
# BILL ANALYSIS
H.B. 3016
By: Fletcher
Homeland Security & Public Safety
Committee Report (Unamended)
H.B. 3016
By: Fletcher
Homeland Security & Public Safety
Committee Report (Unamended)
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Interested parties assert that current law lacks clarity with regard to the types of fingerprint information the Department of Public Safety is allowed to collect from a driver's license applicant. H.B. 3016 seeks to address this issue.
CRIMINAL JUSTICE IMPACT It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly create a criminal offense, increase the punishment for an existing criminal offense or category of offenses, or change the eligibility of a person for community supervision, parole, or mandatory supervision.
RULEMAKING AUTHORITY It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution.
ANALYSIS H.B. 3016 amends the Transportation Code to require an application for an original driver's license to include the applicant's thumbprints and fingerprints and to remove the option for the applicant to provide the applicant's index fingerprints if thumbprints cannot be taken. The bill clarifies the duty of the Department of Public Safety to authenticate thumbprints and fingerprints provided by an applicant for a personal identification certificate, driver's license, or permit using image comparison technology.
EFFECTIVE DATE September 1, 2015.
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE
Interested parties assert that current law lacks clarity with regard to the types of fingerprint information the Department of Public Safety is allowed to collect from a driver's license applicant. H.B. 3016 seeks to address this issue.
CRIMINAL JUSTICE IMPACT
It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly create a criminal offense, increase the punishment for an existing criminal offense or category of offenses, or change the eligibility of a person for community supervision, parole, or mandatory supervision.
RULEMAKING AUTHORITY
It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution.
ANALYSIS
H.B. 3016 amends the Transportation Code to require an application for an original driver's license to include the applicant's thumbprints and fingerprints and to remove the option for the applicant to provide the applicant's index fingerprints if thumbprints cannot be taken. The bill clarifies the duty of the Department of Public Safety to authenticate thumbprints and fingerprints provided by an applicant for a personal identification certificate, driver's license, or permit using image comparison technology.
EFFECTIVE DATE
September 1, 2015.