Bill Text: TX HB2293 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to indicating ethnicity on the form for a voter registration application.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-05-04 - Meeting cancelled [HB2293 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB2293-Introduced.html
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By: Neave | H.B. No. 2293 |
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relating to indicating ethnicity on the form for a voter | ||
registration application. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 13.122(a), Election Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(a) In addition to the other statements and spaces for | ||
entering information that appear on an officially prescribed | ||
registration application form, each official form must include: | ||
(1) the statement: "I understand that giving false | ||
information to procure a voter registration is perjury and a crime | ||
under state and federal law."; | ||
(2) a space for the applicant's registration number; | ||
(3) a space for the applicant's Texas driver's license | ||
number or number of a personal identification card issued by the | ||
Department of Public Safety; | ||
(4) a space for the applicant's telephone number; | ||
(5) a space for the applicant's social security | ||
number; | ||
(6) a space for the applicant's sex and ethnicity; | ||
(7) a statement indicating that the furnishing of the | ||
applicant's telephone number, [ |
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(8) a space or box for indicating whether the | ||
applicant or voter is submitting new registration information or a | ||
change in current registration information; | ||
(9) a statement instructing a voter who is using the | ||
form to make a change in current registration information to enter | ||
the voter's name and the changed information in the appropriate | ||
spaces on the form; | ||
(10) a statement that if the applicant declines to | ||
register to vote, that fact will remain confidential and will be | ||
used only for voter registration purposes; | ||
(11) a statement that if the applicant does register | ||
to vote, information regarding the agency or office to which the | ||
application is submitted will remain confidential and will be used | ||
only for voter registration purposes; | ||
(12) a space or box for indicating whether the | ||
applicant is interested in working as an election judge; | ||
(13) a statement warning that a conviction for making | ||
a false statement may result in imprisonment for up to the maximum | ||
amount of time provided by law, a fine of up to the maximum amount | ||
provided by law, or both the imprisonment and the fine; and | ||
(14) any other voter registration information | ||
required by federal law or considered appropriate and required by | ||
the secretary of state. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |