By Galloway S.B. No. 1748 75R8777 GGS-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to certain procedures for accepting a voter at a polling 1-3 place. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Chapter 63, Election Code, is amended by adding 1-6 Section 63.0101 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 63.0101. REQUEST FOR IDENTIFICATION. (a) The 1-8 presiding judge shall request a voter who does not present a voter 1-9 registration certificate when offering to vote and whose identity 1-10 is unknown to an election officer to present proof of 1-11 identification through a personal identification card or other 1-12 document bearing the voter's photograph. 1-13 (b) After examining the proof of identification, an election 1-14 officer shall return the documentation to the voter. 1-15 (c) A voter who fails to present proof of identification as 1-16 required by this section and whose name is not on the list of 1-17 registered voters for that precinct may not be accepted for voting. 1-18 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997. 1-19 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-23 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.