87R5531 AJZ-D
By: Kolkhorst S.B. No. 562
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the sale of certain personal information from driver's
license records maintained by the Department of Public Safety.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 521.050(a), Transportation Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(a) In addition to the provisions of this subchapter
relating to the disclosure of driver's license information on an
individual, the department may provide a purchaser, in a format
prescribed by the department and acceptable to the purchaser, the
names, addresses, and dates of birth of all license holders that are
contained in the department's basic driver's license record file if
the purchaser certifies in writing that the purchaser:
(1) is eligible to receive the information under
Chapter 730; and
(2) has not experienced a breach of system security,
as defined by Section 521.053, Business & Commerce Code, in the
previous five years.
SECTION 2. Section 521.050, Transportation Code, as amended
by this Act, applies only to the disclosure by the Department of
Public Safety of driver's license information in response to a
request for the information that is made on or after the effective
date of this Act. The disclosure by the Department of Public Safety
of driver's license information in response to a request for the
information that is made before the effective date of this Act is
governed by the law in effect immediately before the effective date
of this Act, and the former law is continued in effect for that
purpose.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.