Bill Text: TX SB398 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Comm Sub


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.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2015-05-21 - Committee report sent to Calendars [SB398 Detail]

Download: Texas-2015-SB398-Comm_Sub.html
  84R28058 JAM-D
 
  By: Schwertner, et al. S.B. No. 398
 
  (Laubenberg)
 
  Substitute the following for S.B. No. 398:  No.
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  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.  Sections 521.059(a) and (b), Transportation
  Code, are 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 and [or] fingerprints.
         (b)  The department shall authenticate the facial image,
  [and] thumbprints, and [or] fingerprints provided by an applicant
  for a personal identification certificate, driver's license, or
  commercial driver's license or permit using image comparison
  technology to ensure that the applicant:
               (1)  is issued only one original license, permit, or
  certificate;
               (2)  does not fraudulently obtain a duplicate license,
  permit, or certificate; and
               (3)  does not commit other fraud in connection with the
  application for a license, permit, or certificate.
         SECTION 2.  Section 521.142(b), Transportation Code, is
  amended to read as follows:
         (b)  The application must include:
               (1)  the thumbprints and [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.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.
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