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
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By: Morales of Maverick | H.B. No. 1777 |
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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. |