Bill Text: TX HB621 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the termination of a volunteer deputy registrar appointment.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 3)
Status: (Passed) 2015-06-19 - Effective on 9/1/15 [HB621 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB621-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 621 | ||
|
|
||
| relating to the termination of a volunteer deputy registrar | ||
| appointment. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 13.033(b), Election Code, is amended to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| (b) If a person is to be appointed, the registrar shall | ||
| prepare a certificate of appointment in duplicate containing: | ||
| (1) the date of appointment; | ||
| (2) the statement: "I, ____________, Voter Registrar | ||
| for ____________ County, do hereby appoint ____________ as a | ||
| volunteer deputy registrar for ____________ County."; | ||
| (3) the person's residence address; | ||
| (4) the person's voter registration number, if any; | ||
| (5) a statement that the term of the appointment | ||
| expires December 31 of an even-numbered year; and | ||
| (6) a statement that the appointment terminates on the | ||
| person's final conviction for an offense for failure to deliver a | ||
| registration application and may terminate on the registrar's | ||
| determination that the person failed to adequately review a | ||
| registration application, intentionally destroyed or physically | ||
| altered a registration application, or engaged in any other | ||
| activity that conflicts with the responsibilities of a volunteer | ||
| deputy registrar under this chapter. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 13.036(b), Election Code, is amended to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| (b) The registrar may terminate the appointment of a | ||
| volunteer deputy registrar on a determination by the registrar that | ||
| the volunteer deputy: | ||
| (1) failed to adequately review a registration | ||
| application as required by Section 13.039; | ||
| (2) intentionally destroyed or physically altered a | ||
| registration application; or | ||
| (3) engaged in any other activity that conflicts with | ||
| the responsibilities of a volunteer deputy registrar under this | ||
| chapter. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 621 was passed by the House on May 6, | ||
| 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 142, Nays 4, 2 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 621 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 27, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
