Bill Text: TX HB545 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the appointment of volunteer deputy voter registrars.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2025-03-03 - Referred to Elections [HB545 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB545-Introduced.html
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| By: Meza | H.B. No. 545 | |
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| relating to the appointment of volunteer deputy voter registrars. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 13.032, Election Code, is amended to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 13.032. PROHIBITION ON REFUSING TO APPOINT. A | ||
| registrar may not refuse to appoint as a volunteer deputy | ||
| registrar: | ||
| (1) a person eligible for appointment under Section | ||
| 13.031(d); or | ||
| (2) any person on the basis of sex, race, creed, sexual | ||
| orientation, gender identity or expression, political affiliation, | ||
| color, or national origin or ancestry. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
| provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
| Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
| Act takes effect September 1, 2025. | ||
