86R13498 SRS-D
By: Middleton H.B. No. 3684
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to measures to prevent noncitizen voter registration and
voting.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Chapter 11, Election Code, is amended by adding
Section 11.0021 to read as follows:
Sec. 11.0021. MEASURES TO PREVENT NONCITIZEN VOTER
REGISTRATION AND VOTING. Notwithstanding any other law, to ensure
a person who is not a citizen of the United States may not register
to vote or vote:
(1) at least twice each year, the secretary of state
shall use the United States Department of Homeland Security
database of noncitizens living in Texas to identify noncitizens
whose voter registrations should be canceled and shall take all
appropriate actions;
(2) the Department of Public Safety shall forward to
the secretary of state the file of a person who applies for a Texas
driver's license or identification card and provides on the
application form that the person is not a citizen of the United
States;
(3) the secretary of state may audit a county's voter
registration list to ensure a county complies with:
(A) state law; and
(B) the secretary of state's directives,
including a requested deletion from a county's voter registration
list; and
(4) a county registrar shall take all appropriate
actions to confirm the citizenship status of a person who applies
for voter registration whose application does not provide:
(A) the person's Texas driver's license number or
the number of an identification card issued by the Department of
Public Safety to the person; or
(B) the last four digits of the person's social
security number.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.