Bill Text: TX HB5142 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the issuance of specially marked driver's licenses and personal identification certificates to veterans.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-11 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB5142 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB5142-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the issuance of specially marked driver's licenses and personal identification certificates to veterans.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-11 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB5142 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB5142-Comm_Sub.html
By: Kacal (Senate Sponsor - Birdwell) | H.B. No. 5142 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 10, 2023; | ||
May 11, 2023, read first time and referred to Committee on | ||
Transportation; May 19, 2023, reported favorably by the following | ||
vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 19, 2023, sent to printer.) | ||
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AlvaradoX | ||
EckhardtX | ||
HancockX | ||
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ParkerX | ||
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relating to the issuance of specially marked driver's licenses and | ||
personal identification certificates to veterans. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 521.102, Transportation Code, is amended | ||
by adding Subsection (b-2) to read as follows: | ||
(b-2) For purposes of Subsection (b)(2), the department | ||
must accept a veteran identification card issued by the United | ||
States Department of Veterans Affairs or an identification card | ||
issued by the United States Department of Defense as sufficient | ||
proof of the veteran's military service and honorable discharge. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 521.1235, Transportation Code, is | ||
amended by adding Subsection (b-2) to read as follows: | ||
(b-2) For purposes of Subsection (b)(2), the department | ||
must accept a veteran identification card issued by the United | ||
States Department of Veterans Affairs or an identification card | ||
issued by the United States Department of Defense as sufficient | ||
proof of the veteran's military service and honorable discharge. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
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