Bill Text: TX HB1777 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to a designation on a person's driver's license or personal identification certificate that the person is a registered sex offender.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-08 - Filed [HB1777 Detail]

Download: Texas-2025-HB1777-Introduced.html
  89R7828 AJZ-D
 
  By: Morales of Maverick H.B. No. 1777
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to a designation on a person's driver's license or personal
  identification certificate that the person is a registered sex
  offender.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter F, Chapter 521, Transportation Code,
  is amended by adding Section 521.1231 to read as follows:
         Sec. 521.1231.  SEX OFFENDER DESIGNATION.  On receipt of a
  court order issued under Article 42.016, Code of Criminal
  Procedure, the department shall include on each driver's license or
  personal identification certificate issued to the person who is the
  subject of the court order a designation that shows the person is
  subject to the registration requirements of Chapter 62, Code of
  Criminal Procedure.
         SECTION 2.  Section 521.1231, Transportation Code, as added
  by this Act, applies only to a driver's license issued or renewed on
  or after the effective date of this Act.  A driver's license issued
  or renewed before the effective date of this Act is governed by the
  law in effect when the license was issued or renewed, and the former
  law is continued in effect for that purpose.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.
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