Bill Text: TX HB187 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to requiring the Texas Department of Criminal Justice to provide notice to certain persons of the right to vote.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-04-20 - Considered in Calendars [HB187 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-HB187-Introduced.html

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85R332 GRM-D
By: Dutton H.B. No. 187

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to requiring the Texas Department of Criminal Justice to
provide notice to certain persons of the right to vote.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Chapter 20, Election Code, is amended by adding
Subchapter F to read as follows:
SUBCHAPTER F. TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE
Sec. 20.151. APPLICABILITY OF OTHER PROVISIONS. The other
provisions of this chapter do not apply to the Texas Department of
Criminal Justice.
Sec. 20.152. NOTICE TO FORMER INMATE. (a) The Texas
Department of Criminal Justice shall provide written notice to a
person who is released from the custody or supervision of the
department that the person may be eligible to vote if the person is
no longer subject to the disability referred to in Section
11.002(a)(4).
(b) The department shall provide to the person an official
voter registration application form prescribed by the secretary of
state together with the notice required by Subsection (a).
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.