By:  Ellis                                             S.B. No. 436
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to the registration of voters at a polling place.
    1-2        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-3        SECTION 1.  Chapter 63, Election Code, is amended by adding
    1-4  Section 63.0091 to read as follows:
    1-5        Sec. 63.0091.  REGISTRATION AT POLLING PLACE; VOTING
    1-6  PROCEDURES.  (a)  This section applies to the conduct of voting and
    1-7  to the registration of voters notwithstanding and in addition to
    1-8  other applicable provisions of this code.
    1-9        (b)  A person who would be eligible to vote in an election
   1-10  under Section 11.001 but for the requirement to be a registered
   1-11  voter shall be accepted for voting in the precinct of the person's
   1-12  residence if, on the day the person offers to vote, the person:
   1-13              (1)  submits a voter registration application that
   1-14  complies with Section 13.002; and
   1-15              (2)(A)  presents one or more forms of identification
   1-16  approved by the secretary of state that establish the person's
   1-17  identity and residence; or
   1-18                    (B)  submits an affidavit that:
   1-19                          (i)  is executed by a registered voter of
   1-20  the precinct who is present at the polling place with the person;
   1-21  and
   1-22                          (ii)  states the person's residence address
   1-23  or, if the residence has no address, the address at which the
    2-1  person receives mail and a concise description of the location of
    2-2  the person's residence and states that the affiant has personal
    2-3  knowledge of the location of the person's residence.
    2-4        (c)  Persons voting under this section shall be processed
    2-5  separately at the polling place from persons who are voting under
    2-6  normal procedures.  The voted ballots of persons voting under this
    2-7  section shall be kept separate from the other voted ballots.
    2-8        (d)  Not later than 72 hours after the polls close on
    2-9  election day, the voter registrar shall determine whether each
   2-10  person voting under this section was eligible for registration.  If
   2-11  a person was eligible for registration, the person's registration
   2-12  is effective and the person's ballot shall be counted.  If a person
   2-13  was not eligible for registration, the person's ballot shall be
   2-14  identified and separated from the other ballots.
   2-15        (e)  The secretary of state shall prescribe the procedures
   2-16  necessary to implement this section and to ensure the proper and
   2-17  orderly conduct of elections.
   2-18        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   2-19        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-20  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-21  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-22  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-23  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.