By: Phillips	H.B. No. 3839

	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to requirements for the issuance of a driver's license or
	personal identification certificate.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1.  Sections 521.044(a), (b), and (e),
	Transportation Code, are amended to read as follows:
	(a)  Information provided on a driver's license or personal
	identification certificate application that relates to the
	applicant's social security number may be used only by the
	department or disclosed only to:
	(1)  the child support enforcement division of the
	attorney general's office;
	(2)  another state entity responsible for enforcing the
	payment of child support;
	(3)  the United States Selective Service System as
	provided by Section 521.147; [or]
	(4)  the unclaimed property division of the
	comptroller's office;
	(5)  an agency of another state responsible for issuing
	driver's licenses or identification documents.
	(b)  The department shall enter an applicant's social
	security number in the department's electronic database but may not
	print the number on the applicant's driver's license or personal
	identification certificate.
	(e)  The department shall include in the department's
	legislative appropriations requests and budgets, in quarterly
	performance reports, and in audits of the department's local
	offices performance measures on the percentage of complete and
	correct social security numbers on driver's licenses and personal
	identification certificates.
	SECTION 2.  Section 521.101(f), Transportation Code, are
	amended to read as follows:
	(f)  A personal identification certificate:
	(1)  for 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, [:
	[(A)]  expires on a date specified by the
	department [if the applicant is younger than 60 years of age; or
	[(B)  does not expire if the applicant is 60 years of age or older];
	or
	(2)  for an applicant not described by Subdivision (1),
	expires on:
	(A)  the earlier of:
	(i)  a date specified by the department; or
	(ii)  the expiration date of the applicant's
	authorized stay in the United States; or
	(B)  the first anniversary of the date of
	issuance, if there is no definite expiration date for the
	applicant's authorized stay in the United States.
	SECTION 3.  Section 521.142(g), Transportation Code, is
	amended to read as follows:
	(g)  The department shall [may] require an applicant to
	provide the applicant's social security number [only for a purpose
	permitted by Section 521.044].
	SECTION 4.  Subchapter I, Chapter 521, Transportation Code,
	is amended by adding Section 521.183 to read as follows:
	Sec. 521.183.  SURRENDER OF DRIVER'S LICENSE OR PERSONAL
	IDENTIFICATION CERTIFICATE.  (a)  A person is not entitled to
	receive a driver's license until the person surrenders to the
	department each personal identification certificate in the
	person's possession that was issued by this state.
	(b)  A person is not entitled to receive a personal
	identification certificate until the person surrender to the
	department each driver's license in the person's possession that
	was issued by this state.
	SECTION 5.  The changes in law made by this Act apply only to
	a driver's license or personal identification certificate for which
	an application is submitted on or after the effective date of this
	Act. A driver's license or personal identification certificate for
	which an application was submitted before the effective date of
	this Act is governed by the law as it existed immediately before the
	effective date of this Act, and that law is continued in effect for
	that purpose.
	SECTION 6.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.