By: Bohac H.B. No. 3069
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to streamlining voter re-registration across county
lines.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Sections 15.052(a) and (b), Election Code, are
amended to read as follows:
(a) The officially prescribed form for a confirmation
notice must include:
(1) a statement that, if the voter fails to submit to
the registrar a written, signed response confirming the voter's
current residence on or before the 30th day after the date the
confirmation notice is mailed:
(A) the voter is subject to submission of a
statement of residence before the voter may be accepted for voting
in an election held after that deadline; or
(B) for a notice delivered under Section 14.023,
the voter will remain subject to submission of a statement of
residence before the voter may be accepted for voting in an
election; [and]
(2) a warning that the voter's registration is subject
to cancellation if the voter fails to confirm the voter's current
residence either by notifying the registrar in writing or voting on
a statement of residence before November 30 following the second
general election for state and county officers that occurs after
the date the confirmation notice is mailed; and
(3) a statement that the voter must include all of the
required information on the official confirmation notice response
form.
(b) The official confirmation notice response form must:
(1) provide spaces for the voter to include all of the
information that a person must include in an application to
register to vote under Section 13.002; and
(2) be postage prepaid and preaddressed for delivery
to the registrar.
SECTION 2. Section 15.053(a), Election Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(a) Not later than the 30th day after the date a
confirmation notice is mailed, the voter shall submit to the
registrar a written, signed response to the notice that confirms
the voter's current residence. The response must contain all of the
information that a person must include in an application to
register to vote under Section 13.002.
SECTION 3. Section 63.0011(c), Election Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(c) Before being accepted for voting, the voter must execute
and submit to an election officer a statement including:
(1) a statement that the voter satisfies the
applicable residence requirements prescribed by Subsection (b);
(2) all of the information that a person must include
in an application to register to vote under Section 13.002 [the
voter's residence address or, if the residence has no address, the
address at which the voter receives mail and a concise description
of the location of the voter's residence]; and
(3) [the month, day, and year of the voter's birth; and
[(4)] the date the statement is submitted to the
election officer.
SECTION 4. Not later than September 1, 2009, the secretary
of state shall prescribe:
(1) official forms for a confirmation notice and
confirmation notice response that meet the requirements of Section
15.052, Election Code, as amended by this Act; and
(2) a form that may be used for the statement of
residence that meets the requirements of Section 63.0011(c),
Election Code, as amended by this Act.
SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2009.