Bill Text: TX HB3736 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to a study by the secretary of state on the accuracy of the information contained in the statewide voter information database.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-05-06 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB3736 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB3736-Comm_Sub.html

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88R6332 PRL-D
By: Guerra, Lopez of Cameron H.B. No. 3736

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to a study by the secretary of state on the accuracy of the
information contained in the statewide voter information database.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 18, Election Code, is
amended by adding Section 18.070 to read as follows:
Sec. 18.070. STUDY ON ACCURACY OF VOTER INFORMATION
DATABASE. (a) The secretary of state shall conduct a study
regarding the accuracy of the statewide computerized voter
registration list and any related database.
(b) The study conducted under Subsection (a) must include:
(1) an examination of the processes by which each:
(A) voter registrar provides voter registration
information to the secretary of state under Section 18.061; and
(B) general custodian of election records
provides voter participation information to the secretary of state
under Section 18.069;
(2) a comparison of the voter information contained in
the voter information database maintained by the secretary of state
to the voter information contained in the database maintained by
each county; and
(3) any other recommendations for legislative or other
action to ensure that the statewide voter information contained in
the database maintained by the secretary is synchronized with the
information contained in the databases maintained by each county.
(c) Not later than September 1, 2024, the secretary of state
shall prepare and submit a report on the study's findings to the
standing committees of each house of the legislature that have
jurisdiction over elections.
(d) This section expires September 1, 2025.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.