Bill Text: TX HB527 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the issuance of a receipt by the Department of Public Safety to an applicant for a driver's license or personal identification certificate that may be used to show proof of voter registration.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-02-20 - Referred to Elections [HB527 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB527-Introduced.html
86R2303 GRM-D | ||
By: Israel | H.B. No. 527 |
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relating to the issuance of a receipt by the Department of Public | ||
Safety to an applicant for a driver's license or personal | ||
identification certificate that may be used to show proof of voter | ||
registration. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 20, Election Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 20.0631 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 20.0631. TRANSACTION RECEIPT. The Department of | ||
Public Safety shall issue a transaction receipt to each qualifying | ||
applicant for a driver's license or personal identification | ||
certificate who completes a voter registration application as | ||
provided by Section 20.063. The receipt must include: | ||
(1) the applicant's name; | ||
(2) the date of issuance of the receipt; | ||
(3) a statement indicating that the applicant | ||
submitted a voter registration application; and | ||
(4) the following statement: "This receipt is proof of | ||
your application for voter registration. Retain it until you | ||
receive a voter registration certificate from your local voter | ||
registrar. If you do not receive a voter registration certificate, | ||
you may use this as proof that you submitted a timely voter | ||
registration application." | ||
SECTION 2. Section 63.011, Election Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subsection (f) to read as follows: | ||
(f) A person who votes a provisional ballot solely because | ||
the person's name was not on the list of registered voters for the | ||
precinct in which the person voted may present a voter registration | ||
receipt issued to the person under Section 20.0631 as proof that the | ||
person is registered to vote in the precinct. An election officer | ||
shall attach the receipt to the envelope containing the person's | ||
provisional ballot. A person who does not present a voter | ||
registration receipt at the time of voting a provisional ballot may | ||
present the receipt to the voter registrar in the same manner as | ||
presenting identification for a provisional ballot under Section | ||
65.0541. | ||
SECTION 3. Section 65.054, Election Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subsection (e) to read as follows: | ||
(e) For purposes of Subsection (b)(1), a voter registration | ||
receipt indicating the voter registered in the precinct in which | ||
the voter voted that is attached to the envelope containing a | ||
provisional ballot or presented to the voter registrar under | ||
Section 63.011(f) is proof that a person who voted a provisional | ||
ballot solely because the person's name was not on the list of | ||
registered voters for the precinct in which the person voted is | ||
eligible to vote in the election. The voter registrar shall amend | ||
the list of registered voters accordingly. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |