84R781 JAM-D
By: Tinderholt H.B. No. 871
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to fingerprints collected by the Texas Department of
Public Safety from an applicant for a driver's license or personal
identification certificate and used for the department's image
verification system.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 521.059(a), Transportation Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(a) The department shall establish an image verification
system based on the following identifiers collected by the
department under Section 521.142(b):
(1) an applicant's facial image; and
(2) an applicant's thumbprints or, if thumbprints
cannot be taken, the index fingerprints of the applicant.
SECTION 2. Not later than March 1, 2016, the Texas
Department of Public Safety shall delete or redact from its records
any fingerprint collected from an applicant for a driver's license
or personal identification certificate in a manner that does not
comply with Section 521.142(b)(1), Transportation Code.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.