Bill Text: TX HB1477 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the issuance and acceptance of a high school student identification card and certain other forms of identification as identification for voting.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-03 - Referred to Elections [HB1477 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB1477-Introduced.html
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By: Anchía | H.B. No. 1477 |
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relating to the issuance and acceptance of a high school student | ||
identification card and certain other forms of identification as | ||
identification for voting. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 25, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 25.902 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 25.902. STUDENT IDENTIFICATION CARDS. A school | ||
district or open-enrollment charter school shall issue to each high | ||
school student enrolled in the district or school a student | ||
identification card that includes the student's: | ||
(1) name; | ||
(2) photograph; and | ||
(3) date of birth. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 63.0101(a), Election Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(a) The following documentation is an acceptable form of | ||
photo identification under this chapter: | ||
(1) a driver's license, election identification | ||
certificate, or personal identification card issued to the person | ||
by the Department of Public Safety that has not expired or that | ||
expired no earlier than four years before the date of presentation; | ||
(2) a United States military identification card that | ||
contains the person's photograph that has not expired or that | ||
expired no earlier than four years before the date of presentation; | ||
(3) a United States citizenship certificate issued to | ||
the person that contains the person's photograph; | ||
(4) a United States passport book or card issued to the | ||
person that has not expired or that expired no earlier than four | ||
years before the date of presentation; [ |
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(5) a license to carry a handgun issued to the person | ||
by the Department of Public Safety that has not expired or that | ||
expired no earlier than four years before the date of presentation; | ||
(6) a student identification card issued to the person | ||
by a public or private high school or institution of higher | ||
education that contains the person's photograph and date of birth; | ||
or | ||
(7) any other identification card, form, or | ||
certificate containing the person's photograph and date of birth | ||
issued by this state, an agency or political subdivision of this | ||
state, or the United States. | ||
SECTION 3. Section 25.902, Education Code, as added by this | ||
Act, applies beginning with the 2023-2024 school year. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |