TITLE: Relating to an optional health condition or disability designation on a driver's license or personal identification certificate.

SUMMARY: Relating to an optional health condition or disability designation on a driver's license or personal identification certificate.

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AN ACT relating to an optional health condition or disability designation on a driver's license or personal identification certificate. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: SECTION 1. Section 521.1251, Transportation Code, as added by Chapter 147 (S.B. 656), Acts of the 88th Legislature, Regular Session, 2023, is amended by adding Subsection (c) to read as follows: (c) A person who makes an election under this section may choose to include on the person's driver's license or personal identification certificate: (1) the designation "COMMUNICATION IMPEDIMENT"; or (2) another distinctive symbol authorized by department rule. SECTION 2. It is the intent of the 89th Legislature, Regular Session, 2025, that the amendment made by this Act to Section 521.1251, Transportation Code, be harmonized with another Act of the 89th Legislature, Regular Session, 2025, relating to nonsubstantive additions to and corrections in enacted codes. SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.