Bill Text: TX HB1328 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to an optional blood type designation on a driver's license, personal identification certificate, or commercial driver's license or learner's permit.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-03 - Referred to Homeland Security & Public Safety [HB1328 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB1328-Introduced.html
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| By: Morales of Maverick | H.B. No. 1328 | |
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| relating to an optional blood type designation on a driver's | ||
| license, personal identification certificate, or commercial | ||
| driver's license or learner's permit. | ||
| 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 BLOOD TYPE DESIGNATION. (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 the person's blood type on the person's driver's license or | ||
| personal identification certificate. | ||
| (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. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 522.030, Transportation Code, is amended | ||
| by adding Subsection (e) 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 the person's blood | ||
| type on the person's commercial driver's license or commercial | ||
| learner's permit. The department shall include on each commercial | ||
| driver's license or commercial learner's permit issued to a person | ||
| who makes an election under this subsection a designation that | ||
| indicates the person's blood type. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
