1-1 By: Naishtat (Senate Sponsor - Harris) H.B. No. 1274
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 10, 1995;
1-3 May 11, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Jurisprudence; May 23, 1995, reported favorably by the following
1-5 vote: Yeas 5, Nays 0; May 23, 1995, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to information about a registered voter that may be
1-9 obtained by a domestic relations office from state voter
1-10 registration records.
1-11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12 SECTION 1. Section 203.012, Family Code, as added by House
1-13 Bill 655, Acts of the 74th Legislature, Regular Session, 1995, is
1-14 amended by amending Subsection (d) and adding Subsection (g) to
1-15 read as follows:
1-16 (d) The Department of Public Safety, <or> the Texas
1-17 Employment Commission, or the office of the secretary of state may
1-18 charge a domestic relations office a fee not to exceed the charge
1-19 paid by the Title IV-D agency <attorney general's office> for
1-20 furnishing records under this section.
1-21 (g) A domestic relations office is entitled to obtain from
1-22 the office of the secretary of state the following information
1-23 about a registered voter to the extent that the information is
1-24 available:
1-25 (1) complete name;
1-26 (2) current and former street and mailing address;
1-27 (3) sex;
1-28 (4) date of birth;
1-29 (5) social security number; and
1-30 (6) telephone number.
1-31 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
1-32 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-33 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-34 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-35 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-36 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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