Bill Text: TX HB621 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the termination of a volunteer deputy registrar appointment.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: (Passed) 2015-06-19 - Effective on 9/1/15 [HB621 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB621-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 621 |
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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 | ||
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Governor |