Bill Text: TX SB876 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the fee for a personal identification certificate for a homeless individual.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2011-05-20 - Committee report sent to Calendars [SB876 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-SB876-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the fee for a personal identification certificate for a homeless individual.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2011-05-20 - Committee report sent to Calendars [SB876 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-SB876-Comm_Sub.html
By: Watson | S.B. No. 876 | |
(In the Senate - Filed February 23, 2011; March 1, 2011, | ||
read first time and referred to Committee on Transportation and | ||
Homeland Security; March 24, 2011, reported favorably by the | ||
following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; March 24, 2011, sent to printer.) |
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relating to the fee for a personal identification certificate for a | ||
homeless individual. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter R, Chapter 521, Transportation Code, | ||
is amended by adding Section 521.4265 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 521.4265. EXEMPTION FOR A HOMELESS INDIVIDUAL. | ||
(a) In this section, "homeless individual": | ||
(1) means an individual who: | ||
(A) lacks a fixed, regular, and adequate | ||
nighttime residence; or | ||
(B) has a primary nighttime residence that is: | ||
(i) a supervised publicly or privately | ||
operated shelter designed to provide temporary living | ||
accommodations, including welfare hotels, congregate shelters, and | ||
transitional housing for the mentally ill; | ||
(ii) an institution that provides a | ||
temporary residence for individuals intended to be | ||
institutionalized; or | ||
(iii) a public or private place not | ||
designed for, or ordinarily used as, a regular sleeping | ||
accommodation for human beings; and | ||
(2) does not include an individual who is imprisoned | ||
or otherwise detained in a correctional facility. | ||
(b) Except as provided by Subsections (e) and (g), a | ||
homeless individual is entitled to an exemption from the payment of | ||
fees under this chapter for the issuance of a personal | ||
identification certificate. | ||
(c) For the purposes of this section, a person's status as a | ||
homeless individual may be verified by an affidavit from: | ||
(1) an employee of an organization that receives | ||
funding from the federal government, this state, or a county or | ||
municipality to provide services to homeless individuals; | ||
(2) an employee of a faith-based organization that | ||
provides services to homeless individuals; | ||
(3) an attorney licensed to practice law in this | ||
state; or | ||
(4) a public school homeless liaison, public school | ||
counselor, or public school social worker. | ||
(d) A person may not charge a fee for the affidavit | ||
described by Subsection (c). | ||
(e) Subsection (b) does not apply to a person subject to the | ||
registration requirements of Chapter 62, Code of Criminal | ||
Procedure. | ||
(f) A homeless individual may receive only one exemption. | ||
(g) Not more than 10,000 homeless individuals may receive an | ||
exemption under this section per fiscal biennium. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011. | ||
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