Bill Text: TX HB486 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the appointment of volunteer deputy voter registrars.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-02-23 - Referred to Elections [HB486 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB486-Introduced.html
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By: Meza | H.B. No. 486 |
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relating to the appointment of volunteer deputy voter registrars. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 13.032, Election Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
Sec. 13.032. PROHIBITION ON REFUSING TO APPOINT. A | ||
registrar may not refuse to appoint as a volunteer deputy | ||
registrar: | ||
(1) a person eligible for appointment under Section | ||
13.031(d); or | ||
(2) any person on the basis of sex, race, creed, sexual | ||
orientation, gender identity or expression, political affiliation, | ||
color, or national origin or ancestry. | ||
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, 2023. |