Bill Text: TX HB582 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to driver's licenses and personal identification certificates issued to legal permanent residents of the United States and refugees or asylees lawfully admitted into the United States.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 2)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-04-26 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB582 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB582-Comm_Sub.html
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| By: Dale | H.B. No. 582 | ||
| Substitute the following for H.B. No. 582: | |||
| By: Smithee | C.S.H.B. No. 582 | ||
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| relating to driver's licenses and personal identification | ||
| certificates issued to legal permanent residents of the United | ||
| States and refugees or asylees lawfully admitted into the United | ||
| States. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 521.101, Transportation Code, is amended | ||
| by adding Subsection (k-1) to read as follows: | ||
| (k-1) The department shall include on a personal | ||
| identification certificate issued to a person who is a legal | ||
| permanent resident of the United States or refugee or asylee | ||
| lawfully admitted into the United States an indication that the | ||
| certificate is not valid proof of identity for voting purposes. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 521.121, Transportation Code, is amended | ||
| by adding Subsection (f) to read as follows: | ||
| (f) The department shall include on a driver's license | ||
| issued to a person who is a legal permanent resident of the United | ||
| States or refugee or asylee lawfully admitted into the United | ||
| States an indication that the license is not valid proof of identity | ||
| for voting purposes. | ||
| SECTION 3. Section 521.142, Transportation Code, is amended | ||
| by amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsection (j) to read as | ||
| follows: | ||
| (b) The application must include: | ||
| (1) except as provided by Subsection (j), the | ||
| thumbprints of the applicant or, if thumbprints cannot be taken, | ||
| the index fingerprints of the applicant; | ||
| (2) a photograph of the applicant; | ||
| (3) the signature of the applicant; and | ||
| (4) a brief description of the applicant. | ||
| (j) An application of a person who is a legal permanent | ||
| resident of the United States or refugee or asylee lawfully | ||
| admitted into the United States must include a complete set of the | ||
| applicant's fingerprints. | ||
| SECTION 4. The changes in law made by this Act to Sections | ||
| 521.101 and 521.121, Transportation Code, apply only to a driver's | ||
| license or personal identification certificate issued or renewed on | ||
| or after the effective date of this Act. A driver's license or | ||
| personal identification certificate issued or renewed before the | ||
| effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect when the | ||
| license or certificate was issued or renewed, and the former law is | ||
| continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
| SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
