Bill Text: TX HB4044 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced

Texas House Bill 4044 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: Relating to a registrar's failure to cancel voter registrations under applicable law.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 9-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-04-29 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB4044 Detail]

Download: Texas-2021-HB4044-Introduced.html



	By: Cain	H.B. No. 4044



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to a registrar's failure to cancel voter registrations
	under applicable law.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 16, Election Code, is
	amended by adding Section 16.039 to read as follows:
	Sec. 16.039. FAILURE BY REGISTRAR TO TIMELY PERFORM DUTY.
	If a registrar fails to timely perform a duty imposed on the
	registrar under this subchapter requiring the cancellation of a
	voter's registration because of the registrar's wilful neglect of
	duty, the secretary of state may withhold funds administered and
	distributed by the secretary under Chapter 19 or Section 31.009
	from the registrar.
	SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.