Bill Text: TX HB2025 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Engrossed

Texas House Bill 2025 (Prior Session Legislation)

TX State Legislature page for HB2025

Bill Title: Relating to legislative oversight of the issuance of driver's licenses and certain other forms of identification in this state.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-05-02 - Received from the House [HB2025 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-HB2025-Engrossed.html

	86R22570 AAF-F

	By: Thompson of Brazoria	H.B. No. 2025



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to legislative oversight of the issuance of driver's
	licenses and certain other forms of identification in this state.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Subtitle B, Title 7, Transportation Code, is
	amended by adding Chapter 526 to read as follows:
	CHAPTER 526. JOINT OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE ON ISSUANCE OF DRIVER'S
	LICENSES AND OTHER FORMS OF IDENTIFICATION
	Sec. 526.001. DEFINITIONS. In this chapter:
	(1) "Committee" means the Joint Oversight Committee on
	Issuance of Driver's Licenses and Other Forms of Identification.
	(2) "Department" has the meaning assigned by Section
	521.001.
	Sec. 526.002. ESTABLISHMENT AND DUTIES. (a) The committee
	is established to review the administration and implementation of
	the following duties of the department:
	(1) the issuance of driver's licenses under Chapters
	521 and 522;
	(2) the issuance of personal identification
	certificates under Chapter 521;
	(3) the issuance of election identification
	certificates under Chapter 521A; and
	(4) the registration of voters during the issuance or
	renewal of a driver's license or personal identification
	certificate.
	(b) The committee shall review plans and receive updates
	from state and local governmental entities involved with the
	administration and implementation of the department's duties
	described by Subsection (a).
	Sec. 526.003. COMPOSITION. (a) The committee is composed
	of eight members as follows:
	(1) four members of the senate appointed by the
	lieutenant governor; and
	(2) four members of the house of representatives
	appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives.
	(b) The chair of the committee shall alternate biennially
	between:
	(1) a member of the senate appointed by the lieutenant
	governor; and
	(2) a member of the house of representatives appointed
	by the speaker of the house of representatives.
	(c) A vacancy on the committee shall be filled in the same
	manner as the original appointment.
	Sec. 526.004. REPORT. The committee biennially shall
	provide a written report to the legislature that identifies:
	(1) the amounts of money appropriated and expended for
	the administration and implementation of the department's duties
	described by Section 526.002(a) during a period determined by the
	committee;
	(2) current technological and operational
	deficiencies in the administration and implementation of the
	department's duties described by Section 526.002(a);
	(3) information relating to the amount of time the
	interaction between the department and a customer currently takes
	for the issuance of a driver's license, personal identification
	certificate, or election identification certificate; and
	(4) recommendations relating to the improvement and
	optimization of the administration and implementation of the
	department's duties described by Section 526.002(a) for the
	consideration of the legislature, including any necessary funding
	and timelines to implement the recommendations of the committee, as
	applicable.
	Sec. 526.005. ADMINISTRATION OF COMMITTEE. (a) The
	committee:
	(1) has the powers and duties of a joint committee
	created by proclamation; and
	(2) may obtain funding in the same manner as a joint
	committee created by proclamation.
	(b) The rules adopted by the 86th Legislature for the
	administration of joint committees created by proclamation apply to
	the committee to the extent the rules are consistent with this
	section.
	Sec. 526.006. EXPIRATION OF CHAPTER. The committee is
	abolished and this chapter expires on September 1, 2029.
	SECTION 2. (a) In this section, "committee" means the Joint
	Oversight Committee on Issuance of Driver's Licenses and Other
	Forms of Identification.
	(b) The lieutenant governor and the speaker of the house of
	representatives shall make appointments to the committee not later
	than the 30th day after the effective date of this Act.
	(c) The speaker of the house of representatives shall
	appoint the initial chair of the committee.
	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
	a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
	provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
	Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
	Act takes effect September 1, 2019.