Bill Text: TX HB862 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to a waiver of fees for foster care and homeless youth for driver's licenses and personal identification certificates.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-05-09 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB862 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB862-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to a waiver of fees for foster care and homeless youth for driver's licenses and personal identification certificates.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-05-09 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB862 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB862-Introduced.html
By: Bernal | H.B. No. 862 |
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relating to the waiver of state identification fees for certain | ||
students. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter I, Chapter 521, Transportation Code, | ||
is amended to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 521.1811 WAIVER OF FEES FOR FOSTER CARE AND HOMELESS | ||
YOUTH. A person is exempt from the payment of any fee for the | ||
issuance of a driver's license or state identification certificate | ||
(including but not limited to first issuances, renewals, and | ||
address changes), as provided under this chapter, if that person | ||
is: | ||
(1) younger than 18 years of age and in the managing | ||
conservatorship of the Department of Family and Protective | ||
Services; or | ||
(2) at least 18 years of age, but younger than 21 years | ||
of age, and resides in a foster care placement, the cost of which is | ||
paid by the Department of Family and Protective Services. | ||
(3) younger than 21 years of age and classified as | ||
homeless under the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act of 1987 | ||
by the Homeless Education Liaison at the school district in which | ||
they are enrolled. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |