Bill Text: TX HB3132 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to an optional designation on a driver's license or personal identification certificate indicating that a person is deaf or hard of hearing.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-1)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-10 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB3132 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB3132-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 3132 |
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relating to an optional designation on a driver's license or | ||
personal identification certificate indicating that a person is | ||
deaf or hard of hearing. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Sections 521.060(a) and (c), Transportation | ||
Code, are amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) The department shall maintain in its files a record of | ||
the name, address, and telephone number of each individual | ||
identified by the holder of a driver's license or personal | ||
identification certificate as an individual the holder authorizes | ||
to be contacted in the event that the holder is injured or dies in or | ||
as a result of a vehicular accident or another emergency situation. | ||
In addition, the department shall maintain in its files a record of | ||
any medical information described by Section 521.125(a) that is | ||
provided to the department under Subsection (c) or any health | ||
condition information that is voluntarily provided to the | ||
department under Sections 521.1251 and [ |
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(c) An application for an original, renewal, or duplicate | ||
driver's license or personal identification certificate must: | ||
(1) be designed to allow, but not require, the | ||
applicant to provide: | ||
(A) the name, address, and telephone number of | ||
not more than two individuals to be contacted if the applicant is | ||
injured or dies in a circumstance described by Subsection (a); and | ||
(B) in addition to health condition information | ||
voluntarily provided under Sections 521.1251 and [ |
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521.142(h), medical information described by Section 521.125(a); | ||
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(2) include a statement that: | ||
(A) describes the confidential nature of the | ||
information; and | ||
(B) states that by providing the department with | ||
the information, the applicant consents to the limited disclosure | ||
and use of the information. | ||
SECTION 2. Subchapter F, Chapter 521, Transportation Code, | ||
is amended by adding Section 521.1251 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 521.1251. OPTIONAL DEAF OR HARD OF HEARING | ||
DESIGNATION. (a) The department shall provide to each applicant | ||
for the issuance of an original, renewal, corrected, or duplicate | ||
driver's license or personal identification certificate who | ||
applies in person the opportunity to voluntarily indicate on a | ||
driver's license or personal identification certificate that the | ||
person is deaf or hard of hearing as evidenced by a written | ||
statement from a licensed physician. | ||
(b) The department shall include a designation that | ||
indicates the person is deaf or hard of hearing on each driver's | ||
license or personal identification certificate issued to a person | ||
who: | ||
(1) makes an election under this section; and | ||
(2) provides sufficient evidence under Subsection (a) | ||
to qualify for the designation. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 3132 was passed by the House on May 6, | ||
2023, by the following vote: Yeas 126, Nays 8, 2 present, not | ||
voting. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 3132 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
19, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |