Bill Text: TX SB1113 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Enrolled
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-Enrolled.html
S.B. No. 1113 |
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relating to a registrar's failure to approve, change, or 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. | ||
(a) If a registrar fails to timely perform a duty imposed on the | ||
registrar under this subchapter requiring the approval, change, or | ||
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. | ||
(b) Notwithstanding Subsection (a), the secretary of state | ||
shall distribute funds under Chapter 19 or Section 31.009 if the | ||
registrar performs the registrar's duty not later than 30 days | ||
after the funds are withheld. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1113 passed the Senate on | ||
April 12, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 19, Nays 12; and that | ||
the Senate concurred in House amendment on May 27, 2021, by the | ||
following vote: Yeas 20, Nays 11. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1113 passed the House, with | ||
amendment, on May 24, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 97, | ||
Nays 46, one present not voting. | ||
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Chief Clerk of the House | ||
Approved: | ||
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Date | ||
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Governor |