Bill Text: TX HB2480 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to requiring notice regarding the potential eligibility to vote of certain persons convicted of a felony.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-13 - Referred to Elections [HB2480 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB2480-Introduced.html
88R9433 TSS-D | ||
By: Reynolds | H.B. No. 2480 |
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relating to requiring notice regarding the potential eligibility to | ||
vote of certain persons convicted of a felony. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter O, Chapter 42A, Code of Criminal | ||
Procedure, is amended by adding Article 42A.703 to read as follows: | ||
Art. 42A.703. NOTICE REGARDING POTENTIAL ELIGIBILITY FOR | ||
VOTER REGISTRATION. A judge who discharges under Article 42A.701 a | ||
defendant placed on community supervision for a felony shall notify | ||
the defendant, in writing, that the defendant may be eligible to | ||
register to vote under Section 13.001, Election Code. | ||
SECTION 2. Chapter 493, Government Code, is amended by | ||
adding Section 493.035 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 493.035. NOTICE REGARDING POTENTIAL ELIGIBILITY FOR | ||
VOTER REGISTRATION. (a) In this section, "offender" means an | ||
inmate or state jail defendant. | ||
(b) The department shall notify, in writing, an offender who | ||
completes the offender's sentence, including any period of parole | ||
or mandatory supervision, that the offender may be eligible to | ||
register to vote under Section 13.001, Election Code. | ||
SECTION 3. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to | ||
a person who fully discharges a sentence, including any term of | ||
incarceration, parole, or supervision, or completes a period of | ||
probation ordered by any court on or after the effective date of | ||
this Act. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |