Bill Text: TX SB2557 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to optional designations on a driver's license, personal identification certificate, or commercial driver's license or learner's permit for blood type and blood disorders.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (N/A - Dead) 2019-05-01 - Referred to Transportation [SB2557 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB2557-Introduced.html
| By: West | S.B. No. 2557 | |
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| relating to optional designations on a driver's license, personal | ||
| identification certificate, or commercial driver's license or | ||
| learner's permit for blood type and blood disorders. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter F, Chapter 521, Transportation Code, | ||
| is amended by adding Section 521.1251 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 521.1251. OPTIONAL DESIGNATIONS FOR BLOOD TYPE AND | ||
| BLOOD DISORDERS. (a) The department shall provide to each | ||
| applicant for the issuance of an original, renewal, corrected, or | ||
| duplicate driver's license or personal identification certificate | ||
| who applies in person, by mail, over the Internet, or by other | ||
| electronic means the opportunity to indicate on the person's | ||
| driver's license or personal identification certificate: | ||
| (1) the person's blood type; and | ||
| (2) whether the person has a blood disorder and, if so, | ||
| the type of blood disorder. | ||
| (b) The department shall include on each driver's license | ||
| issued to a person who makes an election under this section a | ||
| designation that indicates the person's blood type and blood | ||
| disorder, as applicable. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 522.030, Transportation Code, is amended | ||
| by adding Subsections (e) and (f) to read as follows: | ||
| (e) The department shall provide to each applicant for the | ||
| issuance of an original, renewal, corrected, or duplicate | ||
| commercial driver's license or commercial learner's permit who | ||
| applies in person, by mail, over the Internet, or by other | ||
| electronic means the opportunity to indicate on the person's | ||
| commercial driver's license or commercial learner's permit: | ||
| (1) the person's blood type; and | ||
| (2) whether the person has a blood disorder and, if so, | ||
| the type of blood disorder. | ||
| (f) The department shall include on each commercial | ||
| driver's license or commercial learner's permit issued to a person | ||
| who makes an election under Subsection (e) a designation that | ||
| indicates the person's blood type and blood disorder, as | ||
| applicable. | ||
| SECTION 3. The Department of Public Safety shall adopt | ||
| rules as necessary to implement Sections 521.1251 and 522.030(e) | ||
| and (f), Transportation Code, as added by this Act, not later than | ||
| November 1, 2019. | ||
| SECTION 4. 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, 2019. | ||
