Bill Text: TX SB1113 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to a registrar's failure to approve, change, or cancel voter registrations under applicable law.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 9-0)
Status: (Passed) 2021-06-08 - Effective on 9/1/21 [SB1113 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SB1113-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to a registrar's failure to approve, change, or cancel voter registrations under applicable law.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 9-0)
Status: (Passed) 2021-06-08 - Effective on 9/1/21 [SB1113 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SB1113-Introduced.html
| 87R6735 MLH-D | ||
| By: Bettencourt, et al. | S.B. No. 1113 | |
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| 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, 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. | ||
