Bill Text: TX SB975 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub
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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-Comm_Sub.html
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-Comm_Sub.html
By: Menéndez, Flores | S.B. No. 975 | |
(In the Senate - Filed February 16, 2023; March 3, 2023, | ||
read first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs; | ||
April 4, 2023, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 11, | ||
Nays 0; April 4, 2023, sent to printer.) | ||
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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, Transportation Code, is amended | ||
by amending Subsection (m) and adding Subsection (n) 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 provided a voter registration form at | ||
the time of applying for the certificate to update the person's | ||
voter registration information to include the identification | ||
number of the newly issued certificate. | ||
(n) If a person completes a voter registration form at the | ||
time of applying for a personal identification certificate under | ||
Subsection (m)(4), the department shall submit the completed voter | ||
registration form to the secretary of state or the county clerk of | ||
the county in which the person resides not later than the 30th day | ||
after the date the personal identification certificate is issued. | ||
Section 20.063(d), Election Code, applies to a voter registration | ||
form described by this subsection. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
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