{"id":3406,"date":"2025-10-14T19:05:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T19:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/3406\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T19:05:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T19:05:06","slug":"texas-expands-digital-assistant-services-to-include-boat-and-drivers-licenses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/3406\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas expands digital assistant services to include boat and driver&#8217;s licenses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Texans can now renew their boat registrations and upgrade their driver\u2019s licenses online through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texas.gov\/texas-by-texas\/?utm_source=2025pressrelease&amp;utm_medium=general&amp;utm_campaign=txt\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas by Texas<\/a>, the state\u2019s official digital assistant that allows residents to manage multiple state services through a single account. <\/p>\n<p>The newest features, introduced Tuesday in partnership with the state\u2019s Departments of Public Safety and Parks and Wildlife, allows users to upgrade from a learner license to a provisional license, a process that previously required an in-person visit. Users can also manage boat registrations directly from their accounts, including order additional ID cards and replace lost registration decals or ID cards.<\/p>\n<p>The expansion aims to save residents time and money while modernizing the way to interact with state government services.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince TxT\u2019s public launch in 2022, more than 10.8 million Texans have created their TxT account and embraced the ease and convenience that TxT offers,\u201d Texas Chief Information Officer Amanda Crawford said in a press release.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-card__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/sophiafox.jpg\" alt=\"Sophia Fox-Sowell\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tWritten by Sophia Fox-Sowell<br \/>\n\t\t\tSophia Fox-Sowell reports on artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and government regulation for StateScoop. She was previously a multimedia producer for CNET, where her coverage focused on private sector innovation in food production, climate change and space through podcasts and video content. She earned her bachelor\u2019s in anthropology at Wagner College and master\u2019s in media innovation from Northeastern University.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texans can now renew their boat registrations and upgrade their driver\u2019s licenses online through Texas by Texas, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3838,3839,3840,3841,3842,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-3406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-digital-assistant","tag-dir","tag-license","tag-state-local-news","tag-technology-news","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}