Bill Text: TX HB277 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the identification information required of an applicant for a driver's license.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-04-14 - Postponed in subcommittee [HB277 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB277-Introduced.html
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| By: Alonzo | H.B. No. 277 | |
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| relating to the identification information required of an applicant | ||
| for a driver's license. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 521.142, Transportation Code, is amended | ||
| by amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (a-1) to read as | ||
| follows: | ||
| (a) An application for an original license must state the | ||
| applicant's full name and place and date of birth. This | ||
| information must be verified by presentation of proof of identity | ||
| satisfactory to the department. The department must accept the | ||
| following documents as satisfactory proof of identity under this | ||
| subsection: | ||
| (1) an offender identification card or similar form of | ||
| identification issued to an inmate by the Texas Department of | ||
| Criminal Justice if the applicant also provides supplemental | ||
| verifiable records or documents that aid in establishing identity; | ||
| or | ||
| (2) an identity document that is issued by the | ||
| government of another country, if that document bears the | ||
| applicant's photograph, full name, and date of birth and the | ||
| government of the other country has established reasonable | ||
| mechanisms by which the department can verify the identity | ||
| document. | ||
| (a-1) For purposes of Subsection (a)(2), an identity | ||
| document includes a passport, a consular identity document, and a | ||
| national identity document that complies with federal law. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011. | ||
