Optional. Check it, and your military status shows up in records the department releases.
The bill makes the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles give people a checkbox to say they are in the U.S. armed forces when they register or renew a vehicle. It touches every vehicle owner who registers in Texas, but only service members who choose to check the box are affected. If they check it, their military status goes into the vehicle's registration record and shows up in any records or reports the department releases about that vehicle.
relating to the voluntary disclosure by an applicant for
registration of a motor vehicle of the applicant's military status.
WHAT IT DOES
Optional. Check it, and your military status shows up in records the department releases.
The bill makes the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles give people a checkbox to say they are in the U.S. armed forces when they register or renew a vehicle. It touches every vehicle owner who registers in Texas, but only service members who choose to check the box are affected. If they check it, their military status goes into the vehicle's registration record and shows up in any records or reports the department releases about that vehicle.
CHARGES
[ ] NONE FOUND
TOTAL
Net to General Revenue · FY 2026$0
LBB estimate, flow · fiscal note version I · ( ) = negative · source
Sources
Fiscal note · version I · April 12, 2025
Estimated Two-year Net Impact to General Revenue Related Funds for SB2007, As Introduced: an impact of $0 through the biennium ending August 31, 2027. The bill would make no appropriation but could provide the legal basis for an appropriation of funds to implement the provisions of the bill.
First year · FY 2026 · $0
Probable Net Positive/(Negative) Impact to General Revenue Related Funds
LBB published estimates · flow over the stated periods.
Source snapshot 2026-10-19, Central time.
HISTORY
Received by the Secretary of the Senate
Filed
Read first time
Referred to Vet Affairs
Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
Considered in public hearing
Testimony taken in committee
Left pending in committee
Considered in public hearing
Vote taken in committee
Reported favorably w/o amendments
Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
Committee report printed and distributed
Placed on intent calendar
Co-author authorized
Rules suspended-Regular order of business
Read 2nd time & passed to engrossment
Vote recorded in Journal
Three day rule suspended
Record vote
Read 3rd time
Passed
Record vote
Reported engrossed
Received from the Senate
Read first time
Referred to Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs
“with any record information released by the department relating to the department's vehicle registration records for the vehicle described by Subsection (a), including a report issued by the department for the vehicle”
The bill attaches a voluntary military-status flag to vehicle records and sends that flag out with any vehicle record information the department releases to others.
SIGNED FOR BY
House · 130 yea · 0 nay
Senate · 31 yea · 0 nay
Sources
House: Final passage · May 10, 2025. Journal. Published stock for this vote. Snapshot 2026-10-19, Central time.
Senate: Final passage · Apr 30, 2025. Journal. Published stock for this vote. Snapshot 2026-10-19, Central time.
Names were not printed. No individual positions are inferred.
Sources
Senator Hagenbuch moved that Senate Rule 7.18 and the Constitutional Rule requiring bills to be read on three several days be suspended and that SB 2007 be placed on its third reading and final passage. The motion prevailed by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. The bill was read third time and was passed by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
Published stock of positions for this vote, except where marked derived.
Yea: 31 (published)
Nay: 0 (published)
Present, not voting: Not printed
Absent: Not printed
Excused: Not printed
Senate journal. Source snapshot 2026-10-19, Central time.
Names were not printed. No individual positions are inferred.
Sources
Senator Hagenbuch moved that Senate Rule 7.18 and the Constitutional Rule requiring bills to be read on three several days be suspended and that SB 2007 be placed on its third reading and final passage. The motion prevailed by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
Published stock of positions for this vote, except where marked derived.
Yea: 31 (published)
Nay: 0 (published)
Present, not voting: Not printed
Absent: Not printed
Excused: Not printed
Senate journal. Source snapshot 2026-10-19, Central time.
LBB estimate, flow · fiscal note version I · ( ) = negative · source
Sources
Fiscal note · version I · April 12, 2025
Estimated Two-year Net Impact to General Revenue Related Funds for SB2007, As Introduced: an impact of $0 through the biennium ending August 31, 2027. The bill would make no appropriation but could provide the legal basis for an appropriation of funds to implement the provisions of the bill.
First year · FY 2026 · $0
Probable Net Positive/(Negative) Impact to General Revenue Related Funds
LBB published estimates · flow over the stated periods.
Source snapshot 2026-10-19, Central time.
How this was graded
Analysis of text version H by claude-opus-5-5, Oct 22, 2026, against the published rubric.
89R4313 JRR-D
By: Hagenbuch
S.B. No. 2007
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the voluntary disclosure by an applicant for
registration of a motor vehicle of the applicant's military status.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 502, Transportation Code,
is amended by adding Section 502.013 to read as follows:
Sec. 502.013. VOLUNTARY DISCLOSURE OF MILITARY STATUS BY
REGISTRATION APPLICANT. (a) When a person registers or renews the
registration of a motor vehicle under this chapter, the department
shall provide the person with the option to indicate whether the
person is a member of the United States armed forces.
(b) If a person indicates under Subsection (a) that the
person is a member of the United States armed forces, the department
shall include the person's status as a member of the United States
armed forces:
(1) in the department's vehicle registration records
for the vehicle described by Subsection (a); and
(2) with any record information released by the
department relating to the department's vehicle registration
records for the vehicle described by Subsection (a), including a
report issued by the department for the vehicle.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.
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