By Solomons                                           H.B. No. 1914
       74R6051 GGS-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the form of a voter's name on a voter registration
    1-3  certificate.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 15.001(a), Election Code, is amended to
    1-6  read as follows:
    1-7        (a)  Each voter registration certificate issued must contain:
    1-8              (1)  the voter's name in the form indicated by the
    1-9  voter, subject to applicable requirements;
   1-10              (2)  the voter's residence address or, if the residence
   1-11  has no address, the address at which the voter receives mail and a
   1-12  concise description of the location of the voter's residence;
   1-13              (3)  the month, day, and year of the voter's birth and
   1-14  the voter's sex;
   1-15              (4)  the number of the county election precinct in
   1-16  which the voter resides;
   1-17              (5)  the voter's effective date of registration if an
   1-18  initial certificate;
   1-19              (6)  the voter's registration number;
   1-20              (7)  an indication of the period for which the
   1-21  certificate is issued;
   1-22              (8)  a statement that the voter will receive a new
   1-23  certificate every two years as long as the voter's registration is
   1-24  not canceled;
    2-1              (9)  a space for stamping the voter's political party
    2-2  affiliation;
    2-3              (10)  a statement that voting with the certificate by a
    2-4  person other than the person in whose name the certificate is
    2-5  issued is a felony;
    2-6              (11)  a space for the voter's signature;
    2-7              (12)  a statement that the voter must sign the
    2-8  certificate personally, if able to sign, immediately on receipt;
    2-9              (13)  a space for the voter to correct the information
   2-10  on the certificate followed by a signature line;
   2-11              (14)  the statement:  "If any information on this
   2-12  certificate changes or is incorrect, correct the information in the
   2-13  space provided, sign below, and return this certificate to the
   2-14  voter registrar."; and
   2-15              (15)  the registrar's mailing address and telephone
   2-16  number.
   2-17        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   2-18        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-19  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-20  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-21  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-22  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.