Bill Text: TX HB3684 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to measures to prevent noncitizen voter registration and voting.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-19 - Referred to Elections [HB3684 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-HB3684-Introduced.html
  86R13498 SRS-D
 
  By: Middleton H.B. No. 3684
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to measures to prevent noncitizen voter registration and
  voting.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Chapter 11, Election Code, is amended by adding
  Section 11.0021 to read as follows:
         Sec. 11.0021.  MEASURES TO PREVENT NONCITIZEN VOTER
  REGISTRATION AND VOTING. Notwithstanding any other law, to ensure
  a person who is not a citizen of the United States may not register
  to vote or vote: 
               (1)  at least twice each year, the secretary of state
  shall use the United States Department of Homeland Security
  database of noncitizens living in Texas to identify noncitizens
  whose voter registrations should be canceled and shall take all
  appropriate actions;
               (2)  the Department of Public Safety shall forward to
  the secretary of state the file of a person who applies for a Texas
  driver's license or identification card and provides on the
  application form that the person is not a citizen of the United
  States;
               (3)  the secretary of state may audit a county's voter
  registration list to ensure a county complies with:
                     (A)  state law; and
                     (B)  the secretary of state's directives,
  including a requested deletion from a county's voter registration
  list; and
               (4)  a county registrar shall take all appropriate
  actions to confirm the citizenship status of a person who applies
  for voter registration whose application does not provide:
                     (A)  the person's Texas driver's license number or
  the number of an identification card issued by the Department of
  Public Safety to the person; or 
                     (B)  the last four digits of the person's social
  security number. 
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.
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