Bill Text: TX HB3464 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the authority of a county clerk to require an individual to present photo identification to file certain documents.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-05-07 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB3464 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB3464-Comm_Sub.html
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| By: Bohac | H.B. No. 3464 | ||
| Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3464: | |||
| By: Kolkhorst | C.S.H.B. No. 3464 | ||
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| relating to the authority of a county clerk to require an individual | ||
| to present photo identification to file certain documents. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 191, Local Government Code, is amended | ||
| by adding Section 191.010 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 191.010. AUTHORITY TO REQUIRE PHOTO IDENTIFICATION TO | ||
| FILE CERTAIN DOCUMENTS. (a) In this section, "photo | ||
| identification" means one of the following forms of photo | ||
| identification: | ||
| (1) a driver's license, election identification | ||
| certificate, or personal identification card issued to the person | ||
| by any state or territory of the United States that has not expired | ||
| or that expired no earlier than 60 days 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 60 days 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 or a passport issued by a | ||
| foreign government recognized by the United States issued to the | ||
| person that has not expired or that expired no earlier than 60 days | ||
| before the date of presentation; or | ||
| (5) a license to carry a concealed handgun issued to | ||
| the person by the Department of Public Safety that has not expired | ||
| or that expired no earlier than 60 days before the date of | ||
| presentation. | ||
| (b) A county clerk may require a person presenting a | ||
| document in person for filing in the real property records of the | ||
| county to present a photo identification to the clerk. The clerk | ||
| may copy the photo identification or record information from the | ||
| photo identification. The clerk may not charge a person a fee to | ||
| copy or record the information from a photo identification. | ||
| (c) Information copied or recorded from the photo | ||
| identification is confidential. | ||
| (d) A document filed with a county clerk is not invalid | ||
| solely because the county clerk did not copy a photo identification | ||
| or record the information from the photo identification. | ||
| SECTION 2. 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, 2013. | ||
