By: Schwertner, Huffines S.B. No. 398
(In the Senate - Filed January 29, 2015; February 2, 2015,
read first time and referred to Committee on Transportation;
March 16, 2015, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 8,
Nays 1; March 16, 2015, sent to printer.)
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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. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.
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