Bill Text: TX SB1862 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to interstate notification by the voter registrar of certain applicants for voter registration.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-03-04 - Filed [SB1862 Detail]

Download: Texas-2025-SB1862-Introduced.html

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89R13118 LRM-D
By: Hughes S.B. No. 1862

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to interstate notification by the voter registrar of
certain applicants for voter registration.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 13.002(c), Election Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(c) A registration application must include:
(1) the applicant's first name, middle name, if any,
last name, and former name, if any;
(2) the month, day, and year of the applicant's birth;
(3) a statement that the applicant is a United States
citizen;
(4) a statement that the applicant is a resident of the
county;
(5) a statement that the applicant has not been
determined by a final judgment of a court exercising probate
jurisdiction to be:
(A) totally mentally incapacitated; or
(B) partially mentally incapacitated without the
right to vote;
(6) a statement that the applicant has not been
finally convicted of a felony or that the applicant is a felon
eligible for registration under Section 13.001;
(7) the applicant's residence address or, if the
residence has no address, the address at which the applicant
receives mail and a concise description of the location of the
applicant's residence;
(8) the following information:
(A) the applicant's Texas driver's license number
or the number of a personal identification card issued by the
Department of Public Safety;
(B) if the applicant has not been issued a number
described by Paragraph (A), the last four digits of the applicant's
social security number; or
(C) a statement by the applicant that the
applicant has not been issued a number described by Paragraph (A) or
(B);
(9) if the application is made by an agent, a statement
of the agent's relationship to the applicant; and
(10) the address, including the city and county, where
[in which] the applicant formerly resided.
SECTION 2. Section 13.072, Election Code, is amended by
adding Subsections (e) and (f) to read as follows:
(e) If a voter registration application indicates the
applicant's previous residence was outside of this state, the voter
registrar shall notify the voter registrar with jurisdiction over
the previous residence that the applicant may be removed from that
jurisdiction's voter registration list. The notification must
include the applicant's:
(1) full legal name;
(2) date of birth;
(3) current address of residence; and
(4) previous address of residence.
(f) A voter registrar shall provide a monthly report to the
secretary of state listing all notifications sent under Subsection
(e). The report must include the following for each applicant for
whom a notification was sent:
(1) full legal name;
(2) date of birth;
(3) social security number, if provided;
(4) driver's license number, if provided;
(5) voter unique identifier number;
(6) current address of residence; and
(7) previous address of residence.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.