By:  Carriker                                         S.B. No. 1013
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to procedures regarding the cancellation of the voter
    1-2  registrations of persons whose names appear on the lists of
    1-3  returned registration certificates.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 16.032, Election Code, is amended to read
    1-6  as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 16.032.  CANCELLATION FOLLOWING RETURN OF RENEWAL
    1-8  CERTIFICATE.  (a)  As soon as practicable after the return of the
    1-9  undelivered renewal certificates but not later than May 15 of each
   1-10  even-numbered year, the registrar may deliver by mail a notice of
   1-11  potential cancellation to each voter whose name appears on the list
   1-12  of returned certificates and whose name is not to be deleted from
   1-13  the list under Section 15.023.  The notice must be forwardable and
   1-14  mailed to the voter's new address, if known.  The notice must state
   1-15  that the voter's registration will be canceled on the following
   1-16  August 16 unless the voter:
   1-17              (1)  delivers to the registrar a written, signed notice
   1-18  of:
   1-19                    (A)  corrected registration information,
   1-20  including the voter's residence address, by using the appropriate
   1-21  space on the voter's registration certificate or, if the voter does
   1-22  not have the certificate, by using a voter registration application
   1-23  form or a letter or other paper; or
    2-1                    (B)  information indicating that the voter's
    2-2  renewal registration certificate was returned undelivered to the
    2-3  registrar solely because of postal service error, address
    2-4  reclassification, or the registrar's clerical error; or
    2-5              (2)  executes, at an election held before August 16, an
    2-6  affidavit of residence.
    2-7        (b)  The registrar may not cancel a voter's registration
    2-8  under Subsection (c) unless a notice was delivered to the voter in
    2-9  compliance with Subsection (a).
   2-10        (c)  If on August 16 of an even-numbered year a registered
   2-11  voter's name appears on the list of returned certificates, the
   2-12  registrar shall cancel the voter's registration unless:
   2-13              (1)  the name is to be deleted from the list under
   2-14  Section 15.023; or
   2-15              (2)  the registrar before that date receives a notice
   2-16  from the voter under Subsection (a) or the voter's affidavit of
   2-17  residence executed under Section 14.052.
   2-18        (d)  The expense of implementing Subsection (a) is an expense
   2-19  of the registrar's office in connection with voter registration,
   2-20  and Chapter 19, Election Code funds, if available, may be used to
   2-21  defray the cost under Section 19.004.
   2-22        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   2-23        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-24  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-25  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    3-1  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    3-2  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.