Bill Text: TX HB3028 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to requirements for student identification cards issued by public institutions of higher education.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-17 - Left pending in committee [HB3028 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-HB3028-Introduced.html

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86R9305 JRJ-D
By: Talarico H.B. No. 3028

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to requirements for student identification cards issued by
public institutions of higher education.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter E, Chapter 51, Education Code, is
amended by adding Section 51.2095 to read as follows:
Sec. 51.2095. STUDENT IDENTIFICATION CARD REQUIREMENTS.
(a) In this section "institution of higher education" has the
meaning assigned by Section 61.003.
(b) The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board shall
develop standards governing the form and appearance of a student
identification card issued by an institution of higher education to
prevent counterfeiting and ensure that all institutions of higher
education issue identification cards in the same form except for
features that distinguish each institution. Each institution of
higher education must conform to the standards in issuing student
identification cards.
(c) The standards must require a student identification
card to include:
(1) a distinguishing number assigned by the
institution of higher education;
(2) a photograph of the entire face of the student;
(3) the full name and date of birth of the student;
(4) a brief description of the student;
(5) the student's residence address or, for a student
using the procedure under Subsection (e), the street address of the
courthouse in which the student or student's spouse serves as a
federal judge or state judge; and
(6) an expiration date.
(d) A student identification card must include a facsimile
of the student's signature or a space on which the student shall
write the student's usual signature in ink immediately on receipt
of the identification card.
(e) The governing board of an institution of higher
education shall establish a procedure, on a student's or a student's
spouse's qualification for office as a federal judge or a state
judge as defined by Section 572.002, Government Code, to omit the
residence address of the judge and the spouse of the judge on the
student's student identification card and to include, in lieu of
that address, the street address of the courthouse in which the
student or student's spouse serves as a federal judge or state
judge.
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies
beginning with student identification cards issued by public
institutions of higher education for the 2020-2021 academic year.
SECTION 3. 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, 2019.