S.B. No. 1934
AN ACT
relating to requirements for the issuance of a driver's license or
personal identification certificate and to a study on digital
identification and proof of licensure.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 521.044(a), Transportation Code, as
amended by Chapters 1012 (H.B. 2512) and 1105 (H.B. 3787), Acts of
the 83rd Legislature, Regular Session, 2013, is reenacted and
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;
(4) the unclaimed property division of the
comptroller's office; [or]
(5) the Health and Human Services Commission;
(6) [(5)] the secretary of state for the purposes of
voter registration or the administration of elections; or
(7) an agency of another state responsible for issuing
driver's licenses or identification documents.
SECTION 2. Sections 521.044(b) and (e), Transportation
Code, are amended to read as follows:
(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 3. Section 521.101(f), Transportation Code, is
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 4. 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 or proof that the
applicant is not eligible for a social security number [only for a
purpose permitted by Section 521.044].
SECTION 5. 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 surrenders to the
department each driver's license in the person's possession that
was issued by this state.
SECTION 6. Chapter 411, Government Code, is amended by
adding Subchapter Z to read as follows:
SUBCHAPTER Z. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
Sec. 411.951. STUDY ON DIGITAL IDENTIFICATION AND PROOF OF
LICENSURE. (a) The department shall conduct a study:
(1) determining the feasibility of altering state
requirements for the issuance of a driver's license to allow a
person to use a digital form of a driver's license displayed on an
electronic device to prove that the person has a driver's license;
(2) evaluating risks to personal information security
that a system described by Subdivision (1) might create; and
(3) surveying and evaluating electronic driver's
license policies in other states.
(b) Not later than September 1, 2016, the department shall
submit a detailed report of its findings and recommendations to the
legislature.
(c) This section expires January 1, 2017.
SECTION 7. 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 8. To the extent of any conflict, this Act prevails
over another Act of the 84th Legislature, Regular Session, 2015,
relating to nonsubstantive additions to and corrections in enacted
codes.
SECTION 9. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.
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President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1934 passed the Senate on
May 5, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 24, Nays 7; and that the
Senate concurred in House amendment on May 29, 2015, by the
following vote: Yeas 26, Nays 5.
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Secretary of the Senate
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1934 passed the House, with
amendment, on May 27, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 88,
Nays 57, two present not voting.
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Chief Clerk of the House
Approved:
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Date
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Governor