Bill Text: TX HB3583 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to an optional blood type designation on a driver's license, personal identification certificate, or commercial driver's license or learner's permit.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-18 - Referred to Homeland Security & Public Safety [HB3583 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB3583-Introduced.html
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By: Gervin-Hawkins | H.B. No. 3583 |
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relating to an optional blood type designation on a driver's | ||
license, personal identification certificate, or commercial | ||
driver's license or learner's permit. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter F, Chapter 521, Transportation Code, | ||
is amended by adding Section 521.1251 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 521.1251. OPTIONAL BLOOD TYPE DESIGNATION. (a) The | ||
department shall provide to each applicant for the issuance of an | ||
original, renewal, corrected, or duplicate driver's license or | ||
personal identification certificate who applies in person, by mail, | ||
over the Internet, or by other electronic means the opportunity to | ||
indicate the person's blood type on the person's driver's license or | ||
personal identification certificate. | ||
(b) The department shall include on each driver's license | ||
issued to a person who makes an election under this section a | ||
designation that indicates the person's blood type. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 522.030, Transportation Code, is amended | ||
by adding Subsection (e) to read as follows: | ||
(e) The department shall provide to each applicant for the | ||
issuance of an original, renewal, corrected, or duplicate | ||
commercial driver's license or commercial learner's permit who | ||
applies in person, by mail, over the Internet, or by other | ||
electronic means the opportunity to indicate the person's blood | ||
type on the person's commercial driver's license or commercial | ||
learner's permit. The department shall include on each commercial | ||
driver's license or commercial learner's permit issued to a person | ||
who makes an election under this subsection a designation that | ||
indicates the person's blood type. | ||
SECTION 3. The Department of Public Safety shall adopt | ||
rules as necessary to implement Sections 521.1251 and 522.030(e), | ||
Transportation Code, as added by this Act, not later than November | ||
1, 2019. | ||
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, 2019. |