Bill Text: TX SB398 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Comm Sub

Texas Senate Bill 398 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: Relating to fingerprints collected by the Texas Department of Public Safety from an applicant for a driver's license or personal identification certificate and used for the department's image verification system.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2015-05-21 - Committee report sent to Calendars [SB398 Detail]

Download: Texas-2015-SB398-Comm_Sub.html



	By: Schwertner, Huffines	S.B. No. 398
	(In the Senate - Filed January 29, 2015; February 2, 2015,
	read first time and referred to Committee on Transportation;
	March 16, 2015, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 8,
	Nays 1; March 16, 2015, sent to printer.)
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	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT

	relating to fingerprints collected by the Texas Department of
	Public Safety from an applicant for a driver's license or personal
	identification certificate and used for the department's image
	verification system.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 521.059(a), Transportation Code, is
	amended to read as follows:
	(a) The department shall establish an image verification
	system based on the following identifiers collected by the
	department under Section 521.142(b):
	(1) an applicant's facial image; and
	(2) an applicant's thumbprints or, if thumbprints
	cannot be taken, the index fingerprints of the applicant.
	SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.

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