Bill Text: TX SB975 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the procedures for the issuance of a personal identification certificate to a person whose driver's license is surrendered.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 48-23)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-18 - Effective on 9/1/23 [SB975 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB975-Enrolled.html
| S.B. No. 975 | ||
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| relating to the procedures for the issuance of a personal | ||
| identification certificate to a person whose driver's license is | ||
| surrendered. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 521.101(m), Transportation Code, is | ||
| amended to read as follows: | ||
| (m) The department shall adopt procedures for the issuance | ||
| of a personal identification certificate to a person who surrenders | ||
| the person's driver's license at the time of applying for the | ||
| certificate. The procedures: | ||
| (1) must be in compliance with federal guidelines | ||
| governing the issuance of identification documents; | ||
| (2) may require the person issued a personal | ||
| identification certificate to update information previously | ||
| provided to the department under Section 521.142; [ |
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| (3) except as provided by Subdivision (2), may not | ||
| require a person to provide additional identification documents | ||
| unless required for compliance with federal guidelines described by | ||
| Subdivision (1); and | ||
| (4) must require that the person issued a personal | ||
| identification certificate be: | ||
| (A) notified that the person's voter | ||
| registration information will need to be updated to include the | ||
| identification number of the newly issued certificate; and | ||
| (B) provided an opportunity to update the | ||
| person's voter registration information at the time of applying for | ||
| the certificate to include the identification number of the newly | ||
| issued certificate. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 975 passed the Senate on | ||
| April 12, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0; and that | ||
| the Senate concurred in House amendment on May 19, 2023, by the | ||
| following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 975 passed the House, with | ||
| amendment, on May 17, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 145, | ||
| Nays 0, one present not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| Approved: | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
