S.B. No. 1934
 
 
 
 
AN ACT
  relating to requirements for the issuance of a driver's license or
  personal identification certificate and to a study on digital
  identification and proof of licensure.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 521.044(a), Transportation Code, as
  amended by Chapters 1012 (H.B. 2512) and 1105 (H.B. 3787), Acts of
  the 83rd Legislature, Regular Session, 2013, is reenacted and
  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;
               (4)  the unclaimed property division of the
  comptroller's office; [or]
               (5)  the Health and Human Services Commission;
               (6) [(5)]  the secretary of state for the purposes of
  voter registration or the administration of elections; or
               (7)  an agency of another state responsible for issuing
  driver's licenses or identification documents.
         SECTION 2.  Sections 521.044(b) and (e), Transportation
  Code, are amended to read as follows:
         (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 3.  Section 521.101(f), Transportation Code, is
  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 4.  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 or proof that the
  applicant is not eligible for a social security number [only for a
  purpose permitted by Section 521.044].
         SECTION 5.  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 surrenders to the
  department each driver's license in the person's possession that
  was issued by this state.
         SECTION 6.  Chapter 411, Government Code, is amended by
  adding Subchapter Z to read as follows:
  SUBCHAPTER Z. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
         Sec. 411.951.  STUDY ON DIGITAL IDENTIFICATION AND PROOF OF
  LICENSURE. (a)  The department shall conduct a study:
               (1)  determining the feasibility of altering state
  requirements for the issuance of a driver's license to allow a
  person to use a digital form of a driver's license displayed on an
  electronic device to prove that the person has a driver's license;
               (2)  evaluating risks to personal information security
  that a system described by Subdivision (1) might create; and
               (3)  surveying and evaluating electronic driver's
  license policies in other states.
         (b)  Not later than September 1, 2016, the department shall
  submit a detailed report of its findings and recommendations to the
  legislature.
         (c)  This section expires January 1, 2017.
         SECTION 7.  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 8.  To the extent of any conflict, this Act prevails
  over another Act of the 84th Legislature, Regular Session, 2015,
  relating to nonsubstantive additions to and corrections in enacted
  codes.
         SECTION 9.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.
 
 
 
 
 
  ______________________________ ______________________________
     President of the Senate Speaker of the House     
 
         I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1934 passed the Senate on
  May 5, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 24, Nays 7; and that the
  Senate concurred in House amendment on May 29, 2015, by the
  following vote: Yeas 26, Nays 5.
 
 
  ______________________________
  Secretary of the Senate    
 
         I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1934 passed the House, with
  amendment, on May 27, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 88,
  Nays 57, two present not voting.
 
 
  ______________________________
  Chief Clerk of the House   
 
 
 
  Approved:
 
  ______________________________ 
              Date
 
 
  ______________________________ 
            Governor