Bill Text: TX SB511 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to the termination of a volunteer deputy registrar appointment.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-02-11 - Referred to State Affairs [SB511 Detail]

Download: Texas-2015-SB511-Introduced.html
  84R3109 SRS-F
 
  By: Burton S.B. No. 511
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  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 or engaged in any other activity that the
  registrar considers a violation of 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; or
               (2)  engaged in any other activity that the registrar
  considers a violation of the responsibilities of a volunteer deputy
  registrar under this chapter.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.
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