TITLE: Relating to registration with the Selective Service System of certain applicants for a driver's license or personal identification certificate.

SUMMARY: Relating to registration with the Selective Service System of certain applicants for a driver's license or personal identification certificate.

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AN ACT relating to registration with the Selective Service System of certain applicants for a driver's license or personal identification certificate. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: SECTION 1. Section 521.147, Transportation Code, is amended to read as follows: Sec. 521.147. [OPTIONAL] REGISTRATION WITH SELECTIVE SERVICE SYSTEM. (a) After an application for an original, renewal, or duplicate driver's license or personal identification certificate is submitted by a male applicant who on the date of the application is at least 18 years of age but younger than 26 years of age, the department shall send in an electronic format to the United States Selective Service System the information from the application necessary to register the applicant under the Military Selective Service Act (50 U.S.C. App. Section 451 et seq.). (b) An application under this section must give written notice to an applicant that the application also constitutes registration with the United States Selective Service System for persons who are subject to registration and have not previously registered. The notice must be conspicuous on the application and state: "By submitting this application, I am consenting to registration with the United States Selective Service System if my registration is required by federal law." (c) An application under this section must give written notice to an applicant that information regarding alternative service options for applicants who object to conventional military service for religious or other conscientious reasons is available from the department upon request. (d) The applicant's submission of the application following this notification constitutes the applicant's consent to the sending of the information and the [The department shall develop by rule a selective service consent statement as a part of the application for an original, renewal, or duplicate driver's license or personal identification certificate. The consent statement must include a place to indicate consent or declination to register with the United States Selective Service System and must state the benefits and penalties associated with consent or declination to register. The department shall present the statement to each applicant who is subject to registration with the Selective Service System and record the applicant's response. A response is required to complete the application for a license or certificate for such an applicant. The department shall forward to the Selective Service System, in an electronic format, only the information necessary for registration of an applicant consenting to] registration. (e) [(b)] In addition to the notifications [statement] required by Subsections (b) and (c) [Subsection (a)],the department may conspicuously post at each location where applications for driver's licenses and personal identification certificates are accepted one or more signs, in English and Spanish, providing the information contained in the notifications [statement].(f) Subsections (a) and (d) do not apply to an applicant concerning whom the department has previously sent information to the Selective Service System. SECTION 2. This Act applies only to an application for the issuance of a driver's license or personal identification certificate submitted on or after the effective date of this Act. SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.