SRC-TNM, TNM S.B. 500 75(R)BILL ANALYSIS


Senate Research CenterS.B. 500
By: Zaffirini
State Affairs
4-8-97
Committee Report (Amended)


DIGEST 

Currently, a voter registration application is not required to include an
applicant's driver's license number or personal identification number
issued by the Department of Public Safety.  It is often impossible to
identify duplicate voter registrations because there is no unique number
with which to identify voters who are registered in more than one county
or in the same county.  S.B. 500 would require most voter registration
applications to include the applicant's driver's license number, which is
a unique number, therefore enabling the state and counties to identify
duplicate registrations. 

PURPOSE

As proposed, S.B. 500 outlines provisions regarding the contents of a
voter registration application. 

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

This bill does not grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state
officer, institution, or agency. 

SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS

SECTION 1. Amends Section 13.122(a), Election Code, to delete text
requiring a space for the applicant's Texas driver's license number of a
personal identification card issued by the department to be included on an
official prescribed registration application form.  Deletes text requiring
a statement indicating that furnishing the applicant's driver's license
number and personal identification cards number on the officially
prescribed application form is optional.  Makes conforming changes. 

SECTION 2. Amends Section 20.063, Election Code, by adding Subsection (d),
to require the Department of Public Safety (department) to enter the
appropriate information on the application if a completed voter
registration application submitted to a department employee does not
include the applicant's correct residence address, mailing address,
driver's license or personal identification card number. 

SECTION 3. Effective date: September 1, 1997.

SECTION 4. Emergency clause.

SUMMARY OF COMMITTEE CHANGES

Amendment 1.

Adds SECTION 1, Section 16.031(a), Election Code, and renumbers remaining
sections. 

Amendment 2.

Page 3, line 19, amends Section 20.063, Election Code, to add "residence
address, mailing address," between "correct" and "driver's." 




 Amendment 3.

Deletes proposed SECTIONS 1 and 2.