By: Hughes S.B. No. 1862
(In the Senate - Filed March 4, 2025; March 17, 2025, read
first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
April 15, 2025, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0; April 15, 2025,
sent to printer.)
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COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1862 By: Paxton
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to interstate notification by the voter registrar of
certain applicants for voter registration.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 13.002(c), Election Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(c) A registration application must include:
(1) the applicant's first name, middle name, if any,
last name, and former name, if any;
(2) the month, day, and year of the applicant's birth;
(3) a statement that the applicant is a United States
citizen;
(4) a statement that the applicant is a resident of the
county;
(5) a statement that the applicant has not been
determined by a final judgment of a court exercising probate
jurisdiction to be:
(A) totally mentally incapacitated; or
(B) partially mentally incapacitated without the
right to vote;
(6) a statement that the applicant has not been
finally convicted of a felony or that the applicant is a felon
eligible for registration under Section 13.001;
(7) the applicant's residence address or, if the
residence has no address, the address at which the applicant
receives mail and a concise description of the location of the
applicant's residence;
(8) the following information:
(A) the applicant's Texas driver's license number
or the number of a personal identification card issued by the
Department of Public Safety;
(B) if the applicant has not been issued a number
described by Paragraph (A), the last four digits of the applicant's
social security number; or
(C) a statement by the applicant that the
applicant has not been issued a number described by Paragraph (A) or
(B);
(9) if the application is made by an agent, a statement
of the agent's relationship to the applicant; and
(10) the address, including the city and county, where
[in which] the applicant formerly resided.
SECTION 2. Section 13.072, Election Code, is amended by
adding Subsections (e), (f), and (g) to read as follows:
(e) If a voter registration application indicates the
applicant's previous residence was outside of this state, the voter
registrar shall document the applicant's full legal name, date of
birth, current address of residence, and previous address of
residence.
(f) The voter registrar shall compile the information
described by Subsection (e) to produce a monthly report. The
monthly report must be submitted to the secretary of state. The
monthly report must include the following for each voter:
(1) full legal name;
(2) date of birth;
(3) social security number, if provided;
(4) driver's license number, if provided;
(5) voter unique identifier number;
(6) current address of residence; and
(7) previous address of residence.
(g) On a monthly basis, the secretary of state shall, with
the information provided from the report submitted under Subsection
(f), notify the voter registrar with jurisdiction over the previous
residence of a voter described by Subsection (e) that the voter may
be removed from that jurisdiction's voter registration list.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.
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