Bill Text: TX HB3828 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to voter qualification and registration.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-23 - Referred to Elections [HB3828 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB3828-Introduced.html
| By: Schaefer | H.B. No. 3828 | |
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| relating to voter qualification and registration. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 18.068, Election Code, is amended to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 18.068. COMPARISON OF INFORMATION REGARDING | ||
| INELIGIBILITY. (a) The secretary of state shall quarterly compare | ||
| the information received under Section 16.001 of this code and | ||
| Section 62.113, Government Code, to the statewide computerized | ||
| voter registration list. | ||
| (a-1) The secretary of state shall enter into an agreement | ||
| with the Department of Public Safety under which information in the | ||
| statewide computerized voter registration list is compared against | ||
| information in the database of the Department of Public Safety to | ||
| verify the accuracy of information provided on voter registration | ||
| applications. The information compared must include, at a minimum, | ||
| a voter's: | ||
| (1) full legal name; | ||
| (2) former name, if applicable; | ||
| (3) date of birth; | ||
| (4) residence address; | ||
| (5) driver's license or state identification card | ||
| number; | ||
| (6) signature; and | ||
| (7) social security number. | ||
| (a-2) If the secretary determines from information received | ||
| under Subsection (a) or (a-1) that a voter on the registration list | ||
| may be ineligible to vote [ |
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| the secretary shall send notice of the determination to the voter | ||
| registrar of the counties considered appropriate by the secretary. | ||
| (b) The secretary of state shall by rule determine what | ||
| information combinations identified as common to a voter and to an | ||
| individual who is deceased or ineligible to vote constitute a weak | ||
| match or a strong match in order to: | ||
| (1) produce the least possible impact on Texas voters; | ||
| and | ||
| (2) fulfill its responsibility to manage the voter | ||
| rolls. | ||
| (c) The secretary of state may not determine that a voter is | ||
| deceased or ineligible to vote based on a weak match. The secretary | ||
| of state may inform the county of the voter's residence that a weak | ||
| match exists. | ||
| (d) On receiving notification from the secretary of state | ||
| under Subsection (c) that a weak match of identifying information | ||
| exists for a county voter and an individual who is deceased or | ||
| ineligible to vote, the county shall investigate whether the voter | ||
| is that [ |
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| (e) The secretary of state may determine that a voter is | ||
| deceased or ineligible to vote based on a strong match. | ||
| (f) The secretary of state may obtain, for purposes of | ||
| determining whether a voter is deceased or ineligible to vote, | ||
| information from other state agency databases relating to a voter | ||
| that is the same type of information that the secretary of state or | ||
| a voter registrar collects or stores for voter registration | ||
| purposes. | ||
| (g) Not later than December 31 of each year, the secretary | ||
| of state shall provide a report to the legislature of the number of | ||
| voters determined to be ineligible under this section during the | ||
| calendar year. The report must include the reason for | ||
| ineligibility for each voter. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | ||
