Bill Text: TX HB2197 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the statement of residence required to vote.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2021-05-21 - Committee report printed and distributed [HB2197 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB2197-Comm_Sub.html
By: Hull, Paul (Senate Sponsor - Zaffirini) | H.B. No. 2197 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 26, 2021; | ||
May 6, 2021, read first time and referred to Committee on State | ||
Affairs; May 21, 2021, reported favorably by the following vote: | ||
Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 21, 2021, sent to printer.) | ||
|
||
|
||
relating to the statement of residence required to vote. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 63.0011, Election Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subsection (c-1) to read as follows: | ||
(c-1) The statement described by Subsection (c) must | ||
include a field for the voter to enter the voter's current county of | ||
residence. | ||
SECTION 2. As soon as practicable after the effective date | ||
of this Act, the secretary of state shall adopt a statement of | ||
residence form as required by Section 63.0011, Election Code, as | ||
amended by this Act. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | ||
* * * * * |