Bill Text: TX HB2478 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to driver's licenses, commercial driver's licenses, and other identification certificates; authorizing and increasing fees.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-05-14 - Referred to Transportation [HB2478 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-HB2478-Introduced.html

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86R8043 MP-D
By: Deshotel H.B. No. 2478

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to driver's licenses, commercial driver's licenses, and
other identification certificates; authorizing and increasing
fees.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Sections 521.009(a), (a-1), and (c),
Transportation Code, are amended to read as follows:
(a) The department may establish a program for the provision
of renewal and duplicate driver's license, election identification
certificate, and personal identification certificate services by
[in] counties, [and] municipalities, and private vendors that enter
into an agreement with the department under Subsection (a-1).
(a-1) Under the program, the department may enter into an
agreement with the commissioners court of a county, [or] the
governing body of a municipality, or a private vendor to permit
county, [or] municipal, or vendor employees to provide services at
a county or municipal office or at a location determined by the
vendor relating to the issuance of renewal and duplicate driver's
licenses, election identification certificates, and personal
identification certificates, including:
(1) taking photographs;
(2) administering vision tests;
(3) updating a driver's license, election
identification certificate, or personal identification certificate
to change a name, address, or photograph;
(4) distributing and collecting information relating
to donations under Section 521.401;
(5) collecting fees; and
(6) performing other basic ministerial functions and
tasks necessary to issue renewal and duplicate driver's licenses,
election identification certificates, and personal identification
certificates.
(c) A participating county, [or] municipality, or private
vendor must remit to the department for deposit as required by this
chapter fees collected for the issuance of a renewal or duplicate
driver's license or personal identification certificate.
SECTION 2. Section 521.165(c), Transportation Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(c) In [Except as provided by Subsection (d), in] issuing a
driver's license for certain types of vehicles, the director may
waive a driving test for an applicant who has successfully
completed and passed the training and testing conducted by a person
certified under Subsection (a).
SECTION 3. Section 521.271(a), Transportation Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(a) Each original driver's license, provisional license,
learner license, or occupational driver's license issued to an
applicant who is a citizen, national, or legal permanent resident
of the United States or a refugee or asylee lawfully admitted into
the United States expires as follows:
(1) except as provided by Section 521.2711, a driver's
license expires on the eighth [first birthday of the license holder
occurring after the sixth] anniversary of the date of the
application;
(2) a provisional license expires on the 18th birthday
of the license holder;
(3) a learner license expires on the 18th birthday of
the license holder;
(4) an occupational driver's license expires on the
first anniversary of the court order granting the license; and
(5) unless an earlier date is otherwise provided, a
driver's license issued to a person whose residence or domicile is a
correctional facility or a parole facility expires on the first
birthday of the license holder occurring after the first
anniversary of the date of issuance.
SECTION 4. Section 521.421(a), Transportation Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(a) The fee for issuance or renewal of a license not
otherwise provided for by this section is $32 [$24].
SECTION 5. Section 521.428, Transportation Code, is amended
to read as follows:
Sec. 521.428. COUNTY, [OR] MUNICIPAL, OR PRIVATE VENDOR
FEE. (a) A county or municipality that provides services under an
agreement described by Section 521.009 may collect an additional
fee of up to $5 for each transaction provided that relates to
driver's license and personal identification certificate services
only.
(b) A private vendor that provides services under an
agreement described by Section 521.009 may collect an additional
fee of up to $10 for each transaction described by Subsection (a).
SECTION 6. Section 522.029, Transportation Code, is amended
by amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (m) to read as
follows:
(a) The fee for a commercial driver's license issued by the
department is $96 [$60], except as provided by Subsections (f),
(h), (j), [and] (k), and (m).
(m) The fee for a commercial driver's license with a
hazardous materials endorsement issued by the department is $60,
except as provided by Subsections (h), (j), and (k).
SECTION 7. Section 522.051, Transportation Code, is amended
by amending Subsections (a), (b), (c), (d), and (f) and adding
Subsections (i), (j), (k), and (l) to read as follows:
(a) Except as provided by Subsections [Subsection] (f) and
(i) and Sections 522.013(e), 522.033, and 522.054, an original
commercial driver's license expires eight [five] years after the
applicant's next birthday.
(b) Except as provided by Subsection (j) and Section
522.054, a commercial driver's license issued to a person holding a
Texas Class A, B, C, or M license that would expire one year or more
after the date of issuance of the commercial driver's license
expires eight [five] years after the applicant's next birthday.
(c) Except as provided by Subsection (k) and Section
522.054, a commercial driver's license issued to a person holding a
Texas Class A, B, C, or M license that would expire less than one
year after the date of issuance of the commercial driver's license
or that has been expired for less than one year expires eight [five]
years after the expiration date shown on the Class A, B, C, or M
license.
(d) Except as provided by Subsection (l) and Section
522.054, a commercial driver's license issued to a person holding a
Texas Class A, B, C, or M license that has been expired for at least
one year but not more than two years expires eight [five] years
after the applicant's last birthday.
(f) Except as provided by Section 522.013, a non-domiciled
commercial driver's license other than a temporary non-domiciled
commercial driver's license under Section 522.013(e) expires on:
(1) the earlier of:
(A) the first birthday of the license holder
occurring after the eighth [fifth] anniversary of the date of the
application; or
(B) the expiration date of the license holder's
lawful presence in the United States as determined by the
appropriate United States agency in compliance with federal law; or
(2) the first anniversary of the date of issuance, if
there is no definitive expiration date for the applicant's
authorized stay in the United States.
(i) Except as provided by Subsection (f) and Sections
522.013(e), 522.033, and 522.054, an original commercial driver's
license with a hazardous materials endorsement expires five years
after the applicant's next birthday.
(j) Except as provided by Section 522.054, a commercial
driver's license with a hazardous materials endorsement issued to a
person holding a Texas Class A, B, C, or M license that would expire
one year or more after the date of issuance of the commercial
driver's license expires five years after the applicant's next
birthday.
(k) Except as provided by Section 522.054, a commercial
driver's license with a hazardous materials endorsement issued to a
person holding a Texas Class A, B, C, or M license that would expire
less than one year after the date of issuance of the commercial
driver's license or that has been expired for less than one year
expires five years after the expiration date shown on the Class A,
B, C, or M license.
(l) Except as provided by Section 522.054, a commercial
driver's license with a hazardous materials endorsement issued to a
person holding a Texas Class A, B, C, or M license that has been
expired for at least one year but not more than two years expires
five years after the applicant's last birthday.
SECTION 8. Section 522.052, Transportation Code, is amended
by amending Subsections (b) and (c) and adding Subsections (k) and
(l) to read as follows:
(b) Except as provided by Section 522.054, a renewal of a
commercial driver's license that has been expired for less than one
year expires eight [five] years after the expiration date shown on
the commercial driver's license.
(c) Except as provided by Section 522.054, a renewal of a
commercial driver's license that has been expired for at least one
year but not more than two years expires seven [six] years after the
applicant's last birthday.
(k) Except as provided by Section 522.054, a renewal of a
commercial driver's license with a hazardous materials endorsement
that has been expired for less than one year expires five years
after the expiration date shown on the commercial driver's license.
(l) Except as provided by Section 522.054, a renewal of a
commercial driver's license with a hazardous materials endorsement
that has been expired for at least one year but not more than two
years expires five years after the applicant's last birthday.
SECTION 9. Section 521.165(d), Transportation Code, is
repealed.
SECTION 10. The changes in law made by this Act to Sections
521.271, 521.421, 522.029, 522.051, and 522.052, Transportation
Code, apply only to a driver's license or commercial driver's
license issued or renewed on or after June 1, 2020. A driver's
license or commercial driver's license issued or renewed before
June 1, 2020, is governed by the law in effect immediately before
the effective date of this Act, and the former law is continued in
effect for that purpose.
SECTION 11. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.