Changing your license details — Texas Permit Test
Changing your license details on the Texas permit test — 3 rules, each with the reason behind it and a question on it while it is fresh.
The rules
A change of address must be reported to the department within 30 days.
Every notice the state sends goes to the address on file, including the one that says your license is about to lapse. A stale address is how people miss it.
A change of address must be reported to DPS within 30 days
A restriction may be placed on a license, and it is meant to make the driver safer rather than to get in their way.
Corrective lenses and daylight-only are restrictions, not punishments. They describe the conditions under which the driving is safe.
A restriction may be placed on your license. This is not meant to interfere with your driving but to make you a safer driver
A limited term license, a sex offender license, and a license issued to a person 79 or older are not eligible for online, phone, or mail transactions.
These are the cases where somebody has to be seen in person. Letting them renew by post would defeat the reason the rule exists.
These include limited term, sex offender and licenses issued to persons 79 years of age and older
On the test
How soon must a Texas driver report a change of address?
Within 30 days. Every notice the state sends goes to the address on file, including the one that says your license is about to lapse. A stale address is how people miss it. Texas Driver Handbook, p.9: “A change of address must be reported to DPS within 30 days”
How this works
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What it costs
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Where these come from
Every rule here is checked against Texas Driver Handbook, published by the Texas Department of Public Safety, and against the state code itself. Last checked 2026-09-16.
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/TX.pdf (Texas Driver Handbook, form DL-7, Revised January 2026, Texas Department of Public Safety, retrieved 2026-09-14 from dps.texas.gov)
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/TX.pages.txt (plain pdftotext over that PDF; sha256 pinned in SOURCES.json)
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/SOURCES.json (sha256, folio offset 6, nonLawPages, the four extraction traps and the extraction flag, each with its measured basis)
- docs/plans/texas-exam-shape.md (the search that established that no official source states the question count, and the two decoys it disposes of)