Little-noticed amendment turns DPS policy into law
Amendment turns DPS immigrant driver's license policy into law.
By Jason Buch/jbuch@express-news.net
Published 01:17 a.m., Sunday, July 3, 2011

As the House early last month debated a must-pass finance bill, one member slipped in language that puts into law a controversial Texas Department of Public Safety policy requiring driver’s license applicants to show they’re in the country legally.

The amendment, added by Rep. Jim Pitts, R-Waxahachie, to the education funding bill legislators needed to balance the state budget, originally was included in SB 9, the so-called “sanctuary citiesâ€