Bill Text: TX SB1938 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the failure of a voter registrar to comply with voter registration laws.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-04-28 - Referred to Elections [SB1938 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB1938-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the failure of a voter registrar to comply with voter registration laws.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-04-28 - Referred to Elections [SB1938 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB1938-Comm_Sub.html
By: Bettencourt | S.B. No. 1938 | |
(In the Senate - Filed March 8, 2023; March 20, 2023, read | ||
first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs; | ||
April 4, 2023, reported adversely, with favorable Committee | ||
Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 8, Nays 2; April 4, 2023, | ||
sent to printer.) | ||
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1938 | By: Hughes |
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relating to the failure of a voter registrar to comply with voter | ||
registration laws. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 16.039, Election Code, is transferred to | ||
Subchapter A, Chapter 12, Election Code, redesignated as Section | ||
12.007, Election Code, and amended to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 12.007 [ |
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PERFORM DUTY. (a) The secretary of state may withhold funds | ||
administered and distributed by the secretary under Chapter 19 or | ||
Section 31.009 from a registrar if the [ |
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timely perform a duty imposed on the registrar under this code | ||
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(1) the approval, change, or cancellation of a voter's | ||
registration; | ||
(2) the scheduling of a hearing under Section 16.064 | ||
or 16.093; | ||
(3) the determination of a challenge under Section | ||
16.066 or 16.095; or | ||
(4) the delivery of notice under Section 16.0921[ |
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(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, 2023. | ||
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