By: Ellis S.B. No. 216
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to procedures related to the placement of a voter on the
suspense list.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 14.022, Election Code, is amended to
read as follows:
Sec. 14.022. ERRONEOUS RETURN OF RENEWAL CERTIFICATE.
(a) A voter registrar shall determine whether [If the registrar
determines that] a voter's renewal certificate was returned
undelivered solely because of postal service error, address
reclassification, or the registrar's clerical error. If the
registrar determines that the certificate was returned solely
because of that error or reclassification, the registrar shall
delete the voter's name from the suspense list, make any other
appropriate corrections in the registration records, and deliver
the certificate to the voter.
(b) The secretary of state shall adopt rules for the
determination under this section of whether a voter's renewal
certificate was returned undelivered solely because of postal
service error, address reclassification, or the registrar's
clerical error.
SECTION 2. Section 63.0011, Election Code, is amended by
adding Subsection (f) to read as follows:
(f) The secretary of state shall adopt rules to provide for
the uniform and auditable processing of a statement of residence
required under this section.
SECTION 3. The change in law made by this Act to Section
14.022, Election Code, applies only to a voter registration renewal
certificate returned undelivered and received by a voter registrar
on or after the effective date of this Act. A voter registration
renewal certificate returned undelivered and received by a voter
registrar before the effective date of this Act is governed by the
law in effect when the registrar received the undelivered
certificate, and the former law is continued in effect for that
purpose.
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.