Bill Text: TX SB1237 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to persons authorized to access or use electronically readable information derived from a driver's license, commercial driver's license, or personal identification certificate.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2011-05-20 - Committee report sent to Calendars [SB1237 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-SB1237-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to persons authorized to access or use electronically readable information derived from a driver's license, commercial driver's license, or personal identification certificate.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2011-05-20 - Committee report sent to Calendars [SB1237 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-SB1237-Introduced.html
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By: Williams | S.B. No. 1237 |
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relating to persons authorized to access or use electronically | ||
readable information derived from a driver's license, commercial | ||
driver's license, or personal identification certificate. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 521.126(d), Transportation Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(d) The prohibition provided by Subsection (b) does not | ||
apply to a person who accesses, uses, compiles, or maintains a | ||
database of the information for a law enforcement or governmental | ||
purpose, including: | ||
(1) an officer or employee of the department carrying | ||
out law enforcement or government purposes; | ||
(2) a peace officer, as defined by Article 2.12, Code | ||
of Criminal Procedure, acting in the officer's official capacity; | ||
(3) a license deputy, as defined by Section 12.702, | ||
Parks and Wildlife Code, issuing a license, stamp, tag, permit, or | ||
other similar item through use of a point-of-sale system under | ||
Section 12.703, Parks and Wildlife Code; | ||
(4) a person acting as authorized by Section 109.61, | ||
Alcoholic Beverage Code; | ||
(5) a person establishing the identity of a voter | ||
under Chapter 63, Election Code; | ||
(6) a person acting as authorized by Section 161.0825, | ||
Health and Safety Code; [ |
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(7) a person screening an individual who will work | ||
with or have access to children if the person is an employee or an | ||
agent of an employee of a public school district or an organization | ||
exempt from federal income tax under Section 501(c)(3), Internal | ||
Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, that sponsors a program for youth; | ||
or | ||
(8) a person who possesses a certificate issued by the | ||
department under Section 724.016 or who is otherwise authorized to | ||
take or analyze a breath specimen under Chapter 724 or other law. | ||
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, 2011. |