Bill Text: TX SB64 | 2021 | 87th Legislature 2nd Special Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to registration powers of volunteer deputy registrars.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 13-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-08-10 - Filed [SB64 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SB64-Introduced.html
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| By: Menéndez, et al. | S.B. No. 64 | |
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| relating to registration powers of volunteer deputy registrars. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 13.031, Election Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subsection (f) to read as follows: | ||
| (f) A volunteer deputy registrar appointed under this | ||
| section may serve as a volunteer deputy registrar throughout the | ||
| state regardless of which county appointed the deputy registrar. | ||
| The secretary of state shall prescribe procedures to implement this | ||
| subsection. | ||
| SECTION 2. 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 [ |
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| (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, intentionally destroyed or physically | ||
| altered a registration application, or engaged in any other | ||
| activity that conflicts with the responsibilities of a volunteer | ||
| deputy registrar under this chapter. | ||
| SECTION 3. Section 13.037(a), Election Code, is amended to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| (a) A person may not receive compensation from any [ |
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| county for service as a volunteer deputy registrar unless | ||
| compensation is authorized by the commissioners court of that | ||
| county. | ||
| SECTION 4. Section 13.038, Election Code, is amended to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 13.038. POWERS GENERALLY. (a) A volunteer deputy | ||
| registrar may distribute voter registration application forms | ||
| throughout the county and receive registration applications | ||
| submitted to the deputy in person. | ||
| (b) A volunteer deputy registrar may distribute a voter | ||
| registration application in the form prescribed by the secretary of | ||
| state under Section 31.002 throughout the state and receive an | ||
| application in that form submitted to the deputy in person, | ||
| regardless of the county in which the application was printed. | ||
| (c) The secretary of state shall prescribe procedures to | ||
| implement this section. | ||
| SECTION 5. This Act takes effect on the 91st day after the | ||
| last day of the legislative session. | ||
