Bill Text: TX SB39 | 2021 | 87th Legislature 1st Special Session | Introduced

Texas Senate Bill 39 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to the voter registration of naturalized United States citizens.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 9)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-07-09 - Filed [SB39 Detail]

Download: Texas-2021-SB39-Introduced.html

	87S10124 MLH-D

	By: Menéndez, et al.	S.B. No. 39



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to the voter registration of naturalized United States
	citizens.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 13.002(a), Election Code, is amended to
	read as follows:
	(a) Except as provided by Section 13.009, a [A] person
	desiring to register to vote must submit an application to the
	registrar of the county in which the person resides. Except as
	provided by Subsection (e), an application must be submitted by
	personal delivery, by mail, or by telephonic facsimile machine in
	accordance with Sections 13.143(d) and (d-2).
	SECTION 2. Subchapter A, Chapter 13, Election Code, is
	amended by adding Section 13.009 to read as follows:
	Sec. 13.009. VOTER REGISTRATION OF NATURALIZED CITIZEN.
	(a) The voter registrar of each county shall automatically
	register a resident of the county who is eligible to vote as
	provided by Section 13.001 on issuance of a certificate of
	naturalization by the United States Citizenship and Immigration
	Services.
	(b) For the purposes of Subsection (a), the Department of
	Public Safety may, in cooperation with the United States
	Citizenship and Immigration Services, establish a procedure by
	which the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services
	notifies the department when a person lawfully present in this
	state is issued a certificate of naturalization.
	(c) A procedure established under Subsection (b) must
	require the Department of Public Safety to provide the information
	received from the United States Citizenship and Immigration
	Services to the appropriate county registrar.
	(d) If the United States Citizenship and Immigration
	Services fails to notify the Department of Public Safety that a
	person lawfully present in this state has been issued a certificate
	of naturalization, the newly naturalized citizen may present the
	certificate of naturalization to the appropriate county registrar
	in satisfaction of Sections 13.002(c)(3) and (8). The registrar
	shall assist the person in registering to vote.
	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect on the 91st day after the
	last day of the legislative session.