Bill Text: TX HB4401 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to voter registration on issuance or change of a driver's license or identification card by the Department of Public Safety.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-26 - Referred to Elections [HB4401 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-HB4401-Introduced.html
  86R16879 TYPED
 
  By: Cain H.B. No. 4401
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to voter registration on issuance or change of a driver's
  license or identification card by the Department of Public Safety.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 13.002(a), Election Code, is amended to
  read as follows:
         (a)  A person desiring to register to vote must submit an
  application to the registrar of the county in which the person
  resides. Except as provided by Subsection (e) or Subchapter C,
  Chapter 20, an application must be submitted by personal delivery,
  by mail, or by telephonic facsimile machine in accordance with
  Sections 13.143(d) and (d-2).
         SECTION 2.  Section 20.062, Election Code, is amended by
  amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (d) to read as
  follows:
         Sec. 20.062.  DEPARTMENT FORMS AND PROCEDURE. (a) The
  Department of Public Safety shall prescribe and use a form and
  procedure that combines the department's application form for a
  license or card with an officially prescribed voter registration
  application form for each U.S. citizen who applies in person at the
  department's offices or online at the department's Internet
  website.
         (d)  A procedure prescribed under this section must provide
  for the electronic transmission of an applicant's voter
  registration data by the department to the secretary of state in
  accordance with Section 20.066.
         SECTION 3.  Sections 20.063(a) and (c), Election Code, are
  amended to read as follows:
         (a)  The Department of Public Safety shall provide to each
  U.S. Citizen person who applies in person or online at the
  department's Internet website [at the department's offices] for an
  original or renewal of a driver's license, a personal
  identification card, or a duplicate or corrected license or card an
  opportunity to complete a voter registration application form.
         (c)  A change of address that relates to a license or card and
  that is submitted to the department in person, [or] by mail, or
  online at the department's Internet website serves as a change of
  address for voter registration unless the licensee or cardholder
  indicates that the change is not for voter registration purposes.
  The date of submission of a change of address to a department
  employee is considered to be the date of submission to the voter
  registrar for the purpose of determining the effective date of
  registration [only].
         SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.
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