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A Letter from the President

Some of our earliest customers with Raptor's V-soft product might recall our technology started out by collecting visitor information by swiping the driver’s license with a magnetic reader. Shortly after the system was launched Texas Senate bill 1445 amended Texas Transportation Code (TRC) 521.126 preventing collection of electronic information from a Texas I.D., with the exception of law enforcement, banks and government agencies.

We made changes to our process and continued on our way to help provide schools with the information they needed to know about who was in their buildings.

Today the Raptor Network supports more than 2,500 schools, more than 1,600 schools in Texas alone. We are constantly adding new features and delivering the best technology possible to our clients.

As of today, May 18th 2007, a SB 995 has just passed through both Houses of the Texas Congress. This means we can develop even more technology utilizing the magnetic data on the back of drivers license. You will be seeing new features and functionality arising out of Raptor’s lab.

We will be here for our customers, and we thank all of you for your support.

SB 995

BILL TO BE ENTITLED


AN ACT

relating to use of electronically readable information on a

driver's license or personal identification certificate by certain

organizations that sponsor youth programs.

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

SECTION 1. Subsection (d), Section 521.126, Transportation

Code, as amended by Chapters 391 and 1189, Acts of the 79th

Legislature, Regular Session, 2005, is amended to read as follows:

(d) The prohibition provided by Subsection (b) does not

apply to a person who accesses, uses, compiles, or maintains a

database of the information for a law enforcement or governmental

purpose, including:

(1) an officer or employee of the department carrying

out law enforcement or government purposes;

(2) a peace officer, as defined by Article 2.12, Code

of Criminal Procedure, acting in the officer's official capacity;

(3) a license deputy, as defined by Section 12.702,

Parks and Wildlife Code, issuing a license, stamp, tag, permit, or

other similar item through use of a point-of-sale system under

Section 12.703, Parks and Wildlife Code;

(4) a person acting as authorized by Section 109.61,

Alcoholic Beverage Code; [or]

(5) a person establishing the identity of a voter

under Chapter 63, Election Code;

(6) [(5)] a person acting as authorized by Section

161.0825, Health and Safety Code; or

(7) a person screening an individual who will work

with or have access to children if the person is an employee or an

agent of an employee of a public school district or an organization

exempt from federal income tax under Section 501(c)(3), Internal

Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, that sponsors a program for youth.

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. If this

Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this

Act takes effect September 1, 2007.