Bill Text: TX HB364 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the establishment of the Department of Public Safety as a voter registration agency.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-02-25 - Referred to Elections [HB364 Detail]

Download: Texas-2021-HB364-Introduced.html

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87R493 ADM-F
By: Cain H.B. No. 364

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the establishment of the Department of Public Safety as
a voter registration agency.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 13.002(a), Election Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(a) A person desiring to register to vote must submit an
application to the registrar of the county in which the person
resides. Except as provided by Subsection (e) or Subchapter C,
Chapter 20, an application must be submitted by personal delivery,
by mail, or by telephonic facsimile machine in accordance with
Sections 13.143(d) and (d-2).
SECTION 2. Section 20.062, Election Code, is amended by
amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (d) to read as
follows:
(a) The Department of Public Safety shall prescribe and use
a form and procedure that combines the department's application
form for a license or card with an officially prescribed voter
registration application form for each United States citizen who
applies in person at the department's offices or online at the
department's Internet website.
(d) A procedure prescribed under this section must provide
for the electronic transmission of an applicant's voter
registration data by the department to the secretary of state in
accordance with Section 20.066.
SECTION 3. Sections 20.063(a) and (c), Election Code, are
amended to read as follows:
(a) The Department of Public Safety shall provide to each
person who applies in person or online at the department's Internet
website [at the department's offices] for an original or renewal of
a driver's license, a personal identification card, or a duplicate
or corrected license or card an opportunity to complete a voter
registration application form.
(c) A change of address that relates to a license or card and
that is submitted to the department in person, [or] by mail, or
online at the department's Internet website serves as a change of
address for voter registration unless the licensee or cardholder
indicates that the change is not for voter registration purposes.
The date of submission of a change of address to a department
employee is considered to be the date of submission to the voter
registrar for the purpose of determining the effective date of
registration [only].
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.