Texas HB 647: Relating to an advance directive and do-not-resuscitate order of a pregnant woman and information provided for an advance directive.

Bill Text

89(R) HB 647 - Enrolled version - Bill Text

  

  

  
 H.B. No. 647

  

  

  

  

 AN ACT

  

 relating to the removal of certain restrictions imposed on driver's 

  

 licenses; authorizing a fee.

  

        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

  

        SECTION 1.  Section 521.221, Transportation Code, is amended 

  

 by adding Subsection (e) to read as follows:

  

        (e)  The department:

  

              (1)  shall remove a restriction that requires the 

  

 license holder to wear corrective lenses for vision and mail to the 

  

 license holder a new driver's license that does not include the 

  

 restriction if the license holder submits to the department:

  

                    (A)  a written statement from a licensed physician 

  

 or optometrist verifying that the license holder's vision has been 

  

 surgically corrected and the license holder no longer requires 

  

 corrective lenses for vision; and

  

                    (B)  the required fee;

  

              (2)  shall establish a process by which a person may 

  

 submit to the department electronically or by mail the form and fee 

  

 described by Subdivision (1); and

  

              (3)  may not mail a new driver's license under this 

  

 subsection to a person whose driver's license record indicates that 

  

 the person is subject to the registration requirements of Chapter 

  

 62, Code of Criminal Procedure.

  

        SECTION 2.  The Texas Department of Public Safety is 

  

 required to implement this Act only if the legislature appropriates 

  

 money specifically for that purpose.  If the legislature does not 

  

 appropriate money specifically for that purpose, the agency may, 

  

 but is not required to, implement this Act using other 

  

 appropriations available for that purpose.

  

        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.

  

  

  
 ______________________________
 ______________________________

  
    President of the Senate
 Speaker of the House     

  

  

   

        I certify that H.B. No. 647 was passed by the House on April 

   

 10, 2025, by the following vote:  Yeas 145, Nays 1, 1 present, not 

   

 voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B. 

   

 No. 647 on May 28, 2025, by the following vote:  Yeas 115, Nays 23, 

   

 1 present, not voting.

   

   

 ______________________________

   

 Chief Clerk of the House   

  

   

        I certify that H.B. No. 647 was passed by the Senate, with 

   

 amendments, on May 25, 2025, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 

   

 0.

   

   

 ______________________________

   

 Secretary of the Senate   

   

 APPROVED: __________________

   

                 Date       

   

  

   

          __________________

   

               Governor