83R6819 ADM-D
	By: Burnam	H.B. No. 3594

	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to certain requirements for voter registration
	applications and for deputy voter registrars.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1.  Section 13.031(d), Election Code, as amended by
	Chapters 1002 (H.B. 2194) and 1164 (H.B. 2817), Acts of the 82nd
	Legislature, Regular Session, 2011, is reenacted and amended to
	read as follows:
	(d)  To be eligible for appointment as a volunteer deputy
	registrar, a person must:
	(1)  be 18 years of age or older;
	(2)  not have been finally convicted of a felony or, if
	so convicted, must have:
	(A)  fully discharged the person's sentence,
	including any term of incarceration, parole, or supervision, or
	completed a period of probation ordered by any court; or
	(B)  been pardoned or otherwise released from the
	resulting disability to vote; and
	[(3)     meet the requirements to be a qualified voter
	under Section 11.002 except that the person is not required to be a
	registered voter]
	(3)  not have been finally convicted of an offense
	under Section 32.51, Penal Code.
	SECTION 2.  Section 13.033, Election Code, is amended by
	amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsection (e) to read as
	follows:
	(b)  If a person is to be appointed, the registrar shall
	prepare a certificate of appointment in duplicate containing:
	(1)  the date of appointment;
	(2)  the statement: "I, ____________, Voter Registrar
	for ____________ County, do hereby appoint ____________ as a
	volunteer deputy registrar for ____________ County.";
	(3)  the person's residence address;
	(4)  the person's voter registration number, if any;
	(5)  a statement that the term of the appointment
	expires December 31 of an even-numbered year;
	(6)  a volunteer deputy registrar identification
	number, verified by the secretary of state to be unique; and
	(7) [(6)]  a statement that the appointment terminates
	on the person's final conviction for an offense for failure to
	deliver a registration application and may terminate on the
	registrar's determination that the person failed to adequately
	review a registration application.
	(e)  A volunteer deputy registrar whose certificate of
	appointment does not contain an identification number as required
	under Subsection (b)(6) shall request a new certificate from the
	registrar as soon as possible. This subsection expires December
	31, 2014.
	SECTION 3.  Sections 13.040(a) and (c), Election Code, are
	amended to read as follows:
	(a)  On receipt of a completed registration application, a
	volunteer deputy registrar:
	(1)  shall, if the application is on an officially
	prescribed registration application form, detach the perforated
	receipt from the application form and prepare it and [prepare] a
	[receipt in] duplicate on a form furnished by the registrar; and
	(2)  shall, if the application is not on an officially
	prescribed application form, prepare a receipt in duplicate on a
	form furnished by the registrar.
	(c)  The volunteer deputy shall sign the receipts [receipt]
	in the applicant's presence, shall print the volunteer deputy's
	unique identification number on the receipts, and shall give the
	perforated receipt or original receipt, as appropriate, to the
	applicant. A perforated receipt entitles the applicant to vote a
	provisional ballot in the manner provided by Section 63.011 except
	that the applicant is not required to submit the affidavit under
	Section 63.011(a).
	SECTION 4.  Section 13.047, Election Code, is amended by
	adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
	(c)  Any person approved by the registrar may teach a
	training course for deputy registrars.
	SECTION 5.  Section 13.122(a), Election Code, is amended to
	read as follows:
	(a)  In addition to the other statements and spaces for
	entering information that appear on an officially prescribed
	registration application form, each official form must include:
	(1)  the statement:  "I understand that giving false
	information to procure a voter registration is perjury and a crime
	under state and federal law.";
	(2)  a space for the applicant's registration number;
	(3)  a space for the applicant's Texas driver's license
	number or number of a personal identification card issued by the
	Department of Public Safety;
	(4)  a space for the applicant's telephone number;
	(5)  a space for the applicant's social security
	number;
	(6)  a space for the applicant's sex;
	(7)  a statement indicating that the furnishing of the
	applicant's telephone number and sex is optional;
	(8)  a space or box for indicating whether the
	applicant or voter is submitting new registration information or a
	change in current registration information;
	(9)  a statement instructing a voter who is using the
	form to make a change in current registration information to enter
	the voter's name and the changed information in the appropriate
	spaces on the form;
	(10)  a statement that if the applicant declines to
	register to vote, that fact will remain confidential and will be
	used only for voter registration purposes;
	(11)  a statement that if the applicant does register
	to vote, information regarding the agency or office to which the
	application is submitted will remain confidential and will be used
	only for voter registration purposes;
	(12)  a space or box for indicating whether the
	applicant is interested in working as an election judge;
	(13)  a statement warning that a conviction for making
	a false statement may result in imprisonment for up to the maximum
	amount of time provided by law, a fine of up to the maximum amount
	provided by law, or both the imprisonment and the fine; [and]
	(14)  a perforated receipt that may be authenticated
	and detached by a deputy registrar pursuant to Section 13.040; and
	(15)  any other voter registration information
	required by federal law or considered appropriate and required by
	the secretary of state.
	SECTION 6.  To the extent of any conflict, this Act prevails
	over another Act of the 83rd Legislature, Regular Session, 2013,
	relating to nonsubstantive additions to and corrections in enacted
	codes.
	SECTION 7.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.