Bill Text: TX HB871 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to fingerprints collected by the Texas Department of Public Safety from an applicant for a driver's license or personal identification certificate and used for the department's image verification system.
Sponsorship: Strong Partisan Bill (Republican 20-2)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-04-07 - Left pending in committee [HB871 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB871-Introduced.html
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| By: Tinderholt | H.B. No. 871 | |
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| relating to fingerprints collected by the Texas Department of | ||
| Public Safety from an applicant for a driver's license or personal | ||
| identification certificate and used for the department's image | ||
| verification system. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 521.059(a), Transportation Code, is | ||
| amended to read as follows: | ||
| (a) The department shall establish an image verification | ||
| system based on the following identifiers collected by the | ||
| department under Section 521.142(b): | ||
| (1) an applicant's facial image; and | ||
| (2) an applicant's thumbprints or, if thumbprints | ||
| cannot be taken, the index fingerprints of the applicant. | ||
| SECTION 2. Not later than March 1, 2016, the Texas | ||
| Department of Public Safety shall delete or redact from its records | ||
| any fingerprint collected from an applicant for a driver's license | ||
| or personal identification certificate in a manner that does not | ||
| comply with Section 521.142(b)(1), Transportation Code. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. | ||
