TITLE: Relating to the online renewal of driver's licenses of certain active duty military personnel and relatives.

SUMMARY: Relating to the online renewal of driver's licenses of certain active duty military personnel and relatives.

FULL TEXT:
AN ACT relating to the online renewal of driver's licenses of certain active duty military personnel and relatives. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: SECTION 1. Section 521.274(b), Transportation Code, is amended to read as follows: (b) A rule adopted under this section: (1) may prescribe eligibility standards for renewal under this section; (2) may not permit a person subject to the registration requirements under Chapter 62, Code of Criminal Procedure, to register by mail or electronic means; [and] (3) may not permit renewal by mail or electronic means of a driver's license of a person who is 79 years of age or older;and (4) must allow for the renewal of a driver's license by electronic means, regardless of when the license expires, of: (A) a person who: (i) is on active duty in the armed forces of the United States; and (ii) is absent from the state; and (B) the spouse or dependent child of a person described by Paragraph (A).SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.