Bill Text: TX HB2263 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to requesting a replacement voter registration certificate by telephone or electronically.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 2)
Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective immediately [HB2263 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB2263-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 2263 | ||
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| relating to requesting a replacement voter registration | ||
| certificate by telephone or electronically. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 15.004, Election Code, is amended to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 15.004. REPLACEMENT CERTIFICATE. (a) A voter whose | ||
| registration certificate is lost or destroyed may obtain a | ||
| replacement certificate by: | ||
| (1) delivering a written or electronic[ |
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| notice of the loss or destruction to the registrar; or | ||
| (2) telephoning the registrar to request a | ||
| replacement. | ||
| (b) A replacement certificate requested electronically | ||
| under Subsection (a)(1) or by telephone under Subsection (a)(2) may | ||
| be sent only to the mailing address on the voter's registration | ||
| records. | ||
| (c) Subject to Subsection (b), not [ |
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| day after the date the registrar receives the notice or request, the | ||
| registrar shall deliver to the voter a replacement certificate | ||
| containing: | ||
| (1) the registration number and other information on | ||
| the lost or destroyed certificate; and | ||
| (2) a notation that the certificate is a replacement. | ||
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| voter's registration application. If the voter requests a | ||
| replacement registration certificate by telephone under Subsection | ||
| (a)(2), the registrar shall make a written record of the request and | ||
| keep the record on file with the voter's registration application. | ||
| 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. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 2263 was passed by the House on April | ||
| 25, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 136, Nays 0, 2 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 2263 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 15, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
