Bill Text: TX HB1275 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to procedures for the issuance of personal identification certificates to certain persons 65 years of age or older whose driver's licenses are surrendered.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 22-5)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-12 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB1275 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB1275-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to procedures for the issuance of personal identification certificates to certain persons 65 years of age or older whose driver's licenses are surrendered.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 22-5)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-12 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB1275 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB1275-Comm_Sub.html
88R19045 AJZ-D | |||
By: Plesa, Shaheen, Lalani, | H.B. No. 1275 | ||
J. Johnson of Harris, et al. | |||
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1275: | |||
By: Bowers | C.S.H.B. No. 1275 |
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relating to procedures for the issuance of personal identification | ||
certificates to certain persons 65 years of age or older whose | ||
driver's licenses are surrendered. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 521.101, Transportation Code, is amended | ||
by adding Subsection (n) to read as follows: | ||
(n) The department shall adopt procedures to allow a person | ||
who is 65 years of age or older and possesses a driver's license | ||
that is compliant with the federal REAL ID program to apply for a | ||
personal identification certificate online or by phone if the | ||
person surrenders the person's driver's license in a manner | ||
prescribed by the department. The procedures: | ||
(1) must be in compliance with federal guidelines | ||
governing the issuance of identity documents; and | ||
(2) may require the person issued a personal | ||
identification certificate to update information previously | ||
provided to the department under Section 521.142. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |