Bill Text: TX HB953 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to voter registration applications.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-02-27 - Referred to Elections [HB953 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB953-Introduced.html
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| By: Rodriguez of Bexar | H.B. No. 953 | |
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| relating to voter registration applications. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 13.073, Election Code, is amended by | ||
| amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (b-1) to read as | ||
| follows: | ||
| (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b) or (b-1), the | ||
| registrar shall deliver written notice of the reason for the | ||
| rejection of an application to the applicant not later than the | ||
| second day after the date of rejection. | ||
| (b-1) Before rejecting an application on which an applicant | ||
| provided an e-mail address, the registrar may notify an applicant | ||
| by e-mail that the registrar needs additional information to | ||
| approve the application, including correcting an applicant's date | ||
| of birth, spelling of the applicant's name, or providing additional | ||
| information to correct an address or county of residence. The | ||
| registrar shall make a reasonable effort to contact the applicant | ||
| by e-mail. If no response is received before the fourth day after | ||
| the date the registrar sends the notification, the registrar may | ||
| reject the application. | ||
| SECTION 2. 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, e-mail address, 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; [ |
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| (14) a space for the applicant's e-mail address; and | ||
| (15) any other voter registration information | ||
| required by federal law or considered appropriate and required by | ||
| the secretary of state. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
