By Ellis                                                S.B. No. 55
       74R1617 GGS-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the registration of voters at a polling place.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Chapter 63, Election Code, is amended by adding
    1-5  Section 63.0091 to read as follows:
    1-6        Sec. 63.0091.  REGISTRATION AT POLLING PLACE; VOTING
    1-7  PROCEDURES.  (a)  This section applies to the conduct of voting and
    1-8  to the registration of voters notwithstanding and in addition to
    1-9  other applicable provisions of this code.
   1-10        (b)  A person who would be eligible to vote in an election
   1-11  under Section 11.001, but for the requirement to be a registered
   1-12  voter, shall be accepted for voting in the precinct of the person's
   1-13  residence if, on the day the person offers to vote, the person:
   1-14              (1)  submits a voter registration application that
   1-15  complies with Section 13.002; and
   1-16              (2)  presents one or more forms of identification,
   1-17  approved by the secretary of state, that establish the person's
   1-18  identity and residence; or
   1-19              (3)  submits an affidavit that:
   1-20                    (A)  is executed by a registered voter of the
   1-21  precinct who is present at the polling place with the person; and
   1-22                    (B)  states the person's residence address or, if
   1-23  the residence has no address, the address at which the person
   1-24  receives mail and a concise description of the location of the
    2-1  person's residence, and states that the affiant has personal
    2-2  knowledge of the location of the person's residence.
    2-3        (c)  Persons voting under this section shall be processed
    2-4  separately at the polling place from persons who are voting under
    2-5  regular procedures.
    2-6        (d)  The secretary of state shall prescribe the procedures
    2-7  necessary to implement this section and to ensure the proper and
    2-8  orderly conduct of elections.
    2-9        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   2-10        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-11  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-12  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-13  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-14  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.