84R24899 ATP-D
By: Kacal H.B. No. 3779
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3779:
By: Schofield C.S.H.B. No. 3779
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to providing certain persons with resources for notifying
the voter registrar of a death and related procedures.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 16.031, Election Code, is amended by
amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsection (c) to read as
follows:
(b) The registrar shall cancel a voter's registration
immediately if the registrar:
(1) determines from information received under
Section 16.001(c) that the voter is deceased;
(2) has personal knowledge that the voter is deceased;
(3) receives from a person related within the second
degree by consanguinity or affinity, as determined under Chapter
573, Government Code, to the voter a signed [sworn] statement by
that person indicating that the voter is deceased; or
(4) receives notice from the secretary of state under
Section 18.068 that the voter is deceased.
(c) The secretary of state shall prescribe and make publicly
available a form that a person may use to make a statement under
Subsection (b)(3). The form must:
(1) state that the person submitting the form must be
related to the deceased person within the second degree by
consanguinity or affinity, as determined under Chapter 573,
Government Code;
(2) require the person submitting the form to sign the
form; and
(3) require the person to provide enough information
to enable the voter registrar to distinguish the deceased person
from any other registered voter.
SECTION 2. Section 651.201(a), Occupations Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(a) The commission shall prepare a brochure with
information of public interest:
(1) explaining matters relating to funerals; [and]
(2) describing:
(A) the functions of the commission; and
(B) the commission's procedures for filing and
resolving a public complaint; and
(3) informing persons that a voter registrar must
cancel a voter's voter registration if a person related to the voter
within the second degree by consanguinity or affinity, as
determined under Chapter 573, Government Code, provides the
registrar with a signed statement by the person indicating that the
voter is deceased, and that the secretary of state has adopted a
form that may be used to make the signed statement.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect January 1, 2016.