Bill Text: TX HB1264 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the time for making required reports of deceased residents of this state to a voter registrar and to the secretary of state.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 12-0)
Status: (Passed) 2021-06-04 - Effective on 9/1/21 [HB1264 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB1264-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 1264 |
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relating to the time for making required reports of deceased | ||
residents of this state to a voter registrar and to the secretary of | ||
state. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Sections 16.001(a) and (b), Election Code, are | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) Each month the local registrar of deaths shall prepare | ||
an abstract of each death certificate issued in the month for a | ||
decedent 18 years of age or older who was a resident of the state at | ||
the time of death. The local registrar of deaths shall file each | ||
abstract with the voter registrar of the decedent's county of | ||
residence and the secretary of state as soon as possible, but not | ||
later than the seventh [ |
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(b) Each month the clerk of each court having probate | ||
jurisdiction shall prepare an abstract of each application for | ||
probate of a will, administration of a decedent's estate, or | ||
determination of heirship, and each affidavit under Chapter 205, | ||
Estates Code, that is filed in the month with a court served by the | ||
clerk. The clerk shall file each abstract with the voter registrar | ||
and the secretary of state as soon as possible, but not later than | ||
the seventh [ |
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SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 1264 was passed by the House on April | ||
9, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 141, Nays 3, 1 present, not | ||
voting. | ||
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Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 1264 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
19, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 1. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |