By Patterson S.B. No. 1086
75R3985 DRH-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the procedures for voting without a voter registration
1-3 certificate.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 63.010, Election Code, is amended by
1-6 amending Subsection (d) and adding Subsection (g) to read as
1-7 follows:
1-8 (d) The presiding judge shall inform a voter of a challenge
1-9 and of the issues raised by the challenge. The presiding judge may
1-10 request a voter to present proof of identification, if available.
1-11 Except as provided by Subsection (g), a [A] voter's failure to
1-12 present proof of identification does not affect the voter's right
1-13 to vote under this section.
1-14 (g) The secretary of state shall prescribe procedures
1-15 requiring the thumbprint of each person who votes by affidavit
1-16 under this section and does not present proof of identification.
1-17 The thumbprint must be on a form that is part of or attached to the
1-18 affidavit. The procedures may provide an alternative method if a
1-19 thumbprint is not available. A person who does not comply with the
1-20 procedures adopted under this subsection may not be accepted for
1-21 voting.
1-22 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
1-23 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-1 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-2 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-3 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.