Bill Text: TX HB2031 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to payments made to certain voter registrars for certain voter registration activities.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-03-05 - Referred to Elections [HB2031 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB2031-Introduced.html
83R6578 ADM-F | ||
By: Sheets | H.B. No. 2031 |
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relating to payments made to certain voter registrars for certain | ||
voter registration activities. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 19.004, Election Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subsection (e) to read as follows: | ||
(e) Notwithstanding Section 19.002(a), the secretary of | ||
state may refuse to make a payment under this chapter for | ||
registrations that the secretary of state believes to have been | ||
obtained in an excessively partisan manner. The secretary of state | ||
shall prescribe rules necessary to implement this subsection and | ||
shall provide guidelines regarding this subsection to the county | ||
chairs of each political party that holds primary elections in this | ||
state. | ||
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, 2013. |