By Thompson H.B. No. 1140
76R1742 PAM-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to notice to voter registrars concerning persons convicted
1-3 of a felony.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 16.003, Election Code, is amended to read
1-6 as follows:
1-7 Sec. 16.003. FELONY CONVICTION. (a) Each month the
1-8 Department of Public Safety shall prepare an abstract of
1-9 information received under Chapter 60, Code of Criminal Procedure,
1-10 [both the clerk of each court having felony jurisdiction] and the
1-11 institutional division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice
1-12 shall prepare an abstract of each final judgment of a court [served
1-13 by the clerk or] received by the institutional division, [ as
1-14 applicable,] occurring in the month, convicting a person 18 years
1-15 of age or older who is a resident of the state of a felony.
1-16 (b) The Department of Public Safety [clerk] and the
1-17 institutional division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice
1-18 shall file each abstract with the voter registrar of the person's
1-19 county of residence within a reasonable period and in accordance
1-20 with guidelines adopted by the respective agency [not later than
1-21 the 10th day of the month following the month in which the
1-22 abstract is prepared].
1-23 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-24 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-1 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-2 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-3 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-4 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.