Bill Text: TX HB2478 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Engrossed

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Bill Title: Relating to driver's licenses, commercial driver's licenses, and other identification certificates; authorizing and increasing fees.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-05-14 - Referred to Transportation [HB2478 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-HB2478-Engrossed.html

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By: Deshotel, Beckley, Raymond, Parker, H.B. No. 2478
Sanford

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to driver's licenses, commercial driver's licenses, and
other identification certificates; authorizing and increasing
fees.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Sections 521.009(a), (a-1), and (c),
Transportation Code, are amended to read as follows:
(a) The department may establish a program for the provision
of renewal and duplicate driver's license, election identification
certificate, and personal identification certificate services by
[in] counties, [and] municipalities, and private vendors that enter
into an agreement with the department under Subsection (a-1).
(a-1) Under the program, the department may enter into an
agreement with the commissioners court of a county, [or] the
governing body of a municipality, or a private vendor to permit
county, [or] municipal, or vendor employees to provide services at
a county or municipal office or at a location determined by the
vendor relating to the issuance of renewal and duplicate driver's
licenses, election identification certificates, and personal
identification certificates, including:
(1) taking photographs;
(2) administering vision tests;
(3) updating a driver's license, election
identification certificate, or personal identification certificate
to change a name, address, or photograph;
(4) distributing and collecting information relating
to donations under Section 521.401;
(5) collecting fees; and
(6) performing other basic ministerial functions and
tasks necessary to issue renewal and duplicate driver's licenses,
election identification certificates, and personal identification
certificates.
(c) A participating county, [or] municipality, or private
vendor must remit to the department for deposit as required by this
chapter fees collected for the issuance of a renewal or duplicate
driver's license or personal identification certificate.
SECTION 2. Section 521.165, Transportation Code, is amended
by amending Subsection (e) and adding Subsection (f) to read as
follows:
(e) The department may authorize and set standards for an
entity described by Subsection (a), including a driver education
school described by Section 521.1655, to administer, and train and
certify examiners to administer, the examination required by
Section 521.161(b)(2).
(f) An entity described by Subsection (a) may not issue a
temporary receipt under Section 521.1812 to a person who has not
passed the testing conducted by the entity under this section.
SECTION 3. Subchapter I, Chapter 521, Transportation Code,
is amended by adding Section 521.1812 to read as follows:
Sec. 521.1812. ISSUANCE OF TEMPORARY RECEIPT BY THIRD
PARTY. (a) The department may authorize an entity described by
Section 521.165, including a driver education school described by
Section 521.1655, to issue a temporary receipt to a qualifying
applicant who has met all requirements for a driver's license if the
qualifying applicant holds a learner license issued by the
department under Section 521.222.
(b) A temporary receipt issued under Subsection (a) serves
as temporary permission to operate a vehicle until the department
provides a driver's license to the qualifying applicant.
(c) The department shall develop a process for an entity
under Subsection (a) to electronically transmit to the department
the documents and information required by the department for the
issuance of a driver's license to a qualifying applicant.
(d) The department shall adopt rules to implement this
section.
SECTION 4. Sections 521.271(a) and (b), Transportation
Code, are amended to read as follows:
(a) Each original driver's license, provisional license,
learner license, or occupational driver's license issued to an
applicant who is a citizen, national, or legal permanent resident
of the United States or a refugee or asylee lawfully admitted into
the United States expires as follows:
(1) except as provided by Section 521.2711, a driver's
license expires on the first birthday of the license holder
occurring after the eighth [sixth] anniversary of the date of the
application;
(2) a provisional license expires on the 18th
birthday of the license holder;
(3) a learner license expires on the 18th birthday of
the license holder;
(4) an occupational driver's license expires on the
first anniversary of the court order granting the license; and
(5) unless an earlier date is otherwise provided, a
driver's license issued to a person whose residence or domicile is a
correctional facility or a parole facility expires on the first
birthday of the license holder occurring after the first
anniversary of the date of issuance.
(b) Except as provided by Section 521.2711, a driver's
license that is renewed expires on the earlier of:
(1) the eighth [sixth] anniversary of the expiration
date before renewal if the applicant is a citizen, national, or
legal permanent resident of the United States or a refugee or asylee
lawfully admitted into the United States;
(1-a) for an applicant not described by Subdivision
(1):
(A) the earlier of:
(i) the eighth [sixth] anniversary of the
expiration date before renewal; or
(ii) the expiration date of the applicant's
authorized stay in the United States; or
(B) the first anniversary of the date of
issuance, if there is no definite expiration date for the
applicant's authorized stay in the United States; or
(2) for a renewal driver's license issued to a person
whose residence or domicile is a correctional facility or a parole
facility, the first birthday of the license holder occurring after
the first anniversary of the date of issuance unless an earlier date
is otherwise provided.
SECTION 5. Section 521.421(a), Transportation Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(a) The fee for issuance or renewal of a license not
otherwise provided for by this section is $32 [$24].
SECTION 6. Section 521.428, Transportation Code, is amended
to read as follows:
Sec. 521.428. COUNTY, [OR] MUNICIPAL, OR PRIVATE VENDOR
FEE. A county, [or] municipality, or private vendor that provides
services under an agreement described by Section 521.009 may
collect an additional fee of up to $10 [$5] for each transaction
provided that relates to driver's license and personal
identification certificate services only.
SECTION 7. Section 522.029, Transportation Code, is amended
by amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (m) to read as
follows:
(a) The fee for a commercial driver's license issued by the
department is $96 [$60], except as provided by Subsections (f),
(h), (j), [and] (k), and (m).
(m) The fee for a commercial driver's license with a
hazardous materials endorsement issued by the department is $60,
except as provided by Subsections (h), (j), and (k).
SECTION 8. Section 522.051, Transportation Code, is amended
by amending Subsections (a), (b), (c), (d), and (f) and adding
Subsections (i), (j), (k), and (l) to read as follows:
(a) Except as provided by Subsections [Subsection] (f) and
(i) and Sections 522.013(e), 522.033, and 522.054, an original
commercial driver's license expires eight [five] years after the
applicant's next birthday.
(b) Except as provided by Subsection (j) and Section
522.054, a commercial driver's license issued to a person holding a
Texas Class A, B, C, or M license that would expire one year or more
after the date of issuance of the commercial driver's license
expires eight [five] years after the applicant's next birthday.
(c) Except as provided by Subsection (k) and Section
522.054, a commercial driver's license issued to a person holding a
Texas Class A, B, C, or M license that would expire less than one
year after the date of issuance of the commercial driver's license
or that has been expired for less than one year expires eight [five]
years after the expiration date shown on the Class A, B, C, or M
license.
(d) Except as provided by Subsection (l) and Section
522.054, a commercial driver's license issued to a person holding a
Texas Class A, B, C, or M license that has been expired for at least
one year but not more than two years expires eight [five] years
after the applicant's last birthday.
(f) Except as provided by Section 522.013, a non-domiciled
commercial driver's license other than a temporary non-domiciled
commercial driver's license under Section 522.013(e) expires on:
(1) the earlier of:
(A) the first birthday of the license holder
occurring after the eighth [fifth] anniversary of the date of the
application; or
(B) the expiration date of the license holder's
lawful presence in the United States as determined by the
appropriate United States agency in compliance with federal law; or
(2) the first anniversary of the date of issuance, if
there is no definitive expiration date for the applicant's
authorized stay in the United States.
(i) Except as provided by Subsection (f) and Sections
522.013(e), 522.033, and 522.054, an original commercial driver's
license with a hazardous materials endorsement expires five years
after the applicant's next birthday.
(j) Except as provided by Section 522.054, a commercial
driver's license with a hazardous materials endorsement issued to a
person holding a Texas Class A, B, C, or M license that would expire
one year or more after the date of issuance of the commercial
driver's license expires five years after the applicant's next
birthday.
(k) Except as provided by Section 522.054, a commercial
driver's license with a hazardous materials endorsement issued to a
person holding a Texas Class A, B, C, or M license that would expire
less than one year after the date of issuance of the commercial
driver's license or that has been expired for less than one year
expires five years after the expiration date shown on the Class A,
B, C, or M license.
(l) Except as provided by Section 522.054, a commercial
driver's license with a hazardous materials endorsement issued to a
person holding a Texas Class A, B, C, or M license that has been
expired for at least one year but not more than two years expires
five years after the applicant's last birthday.
SECTION 9. Section 522.052, Transportation Code, is amended
by amending Subsections (b) and (c) and adding Subsections (k) and
(l) to read as follows:
(b) Except as provided by Section 522.054, a renewal of a
commercial driver's license that has been expired for less than one
year expires eight [five] years after the expiration date shown on
the commercial driver's license.
(c) Except as provided by Section 522.054, a renewal of a
commercial driver's license that has been expired for at least one
year but not more than two years expires seven [six] years after the
applicant's last birthday.
(k) Except as provided by Section 522.054, a renewal of a
commercial driver's license with a hazardous materials endorsement
that has been expired for less than one year expires five years
after the expiration date shown on the commercial driver's license.
(l) Except as provided by Section 522.054, a renewal of a
commercial driver's license with a hazardous materials endorsement
that has been expired for at least one year but not more than two
years expires five years after the applicant's last birthday.
SECTION 10. The changes in law made by this Act to Sections
521.271, 521.421, 522.029, 522.051, and 522.052, Transportation
Code, apply only to a driver's license or commercial driver's
license issued or renewed on or after June 1, 2020. A driver's
license or commercial driver's license issued or renewed before
June 1, 2020, is governed by the law in effect immediately before
the effective date of this Act, and the former law is continued in
effect for that purpose.
SECTION 11. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.