Tex. Transp. Code § 1001.103 · Subchapter D. ELECTRONIC ISSUANCE OF LICENSES
DIGITAL SIGNATURE.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A license application received by the department is considered signed if a digital signature is transmitted with the application and intended by the applicant to authenticate the license in accordance with Subsection (b).
(b) The department may only accept a digital signature used to authenticate a license application under procedures that:
(1) comply with any applicable rules of another state agency having jurisdiction over department use or acceptance of a digital signature; and
(2) provide for consideration of factors that may affect a digital signature's reliability, including whether a digital signature is:
(A) unique to the person using it;
(B) capable of independent verification;
(C) under the sole control of the person using it; and
(D) transmitted in a manner that makes it infeasible to change the data in the communication or digital signature without invalidating the digital signature.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 1290 (H.B. 2017), Sec. 40, eff. September 1, 2011.
Source of truth
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/TN/htm/TN.1001.htm
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