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 [both the
 1-8     clerk of each court having felony jurisdiction and] the
 1-9     institutional division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice
1-10     shall prepare an abstract of each final judgment [of a court served
1-11     by the clerk or] received by the institutional division, [as
1-12     applicable,] occurring in the month, convicting a person 18 years
1-13     of age or older who is a resident of the state of a felony.
1-14           (b)  The [clerk and the] institutional division of the Texas
1-15     Department of Criminal Justice shall file each abstract with the
1-16     voter registrar of the person's county of residence not later than
1-17     the 10th day of the month following the month in which the abstract
1-18     is prepared.
1-19           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-20           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-21     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-22     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-23     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-24     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House
               I certify that H.B. No. 1140 was passed by the House on May
         11, 1999, by a non-record vote; that the House refused to concur in
         Senate amendments to H.B. No. 1140 on May 26, 1999, and requested
         the appointment of a conference committee to consider the
         differences between the two houses; and that the House adopted the
         conference committee report on H.B. No. 1140 on May 30, 1999, by a
         non-record vote.
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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House
               I certify that H.B. No. 1140 was passed by the Senate, with
         amendments, on May 24, 1999, by a viva-voce vote; at the request of
         the House, the Senate appointed a conference committee to consider
         the differences between the two houses; and that the Senate adopted
         the conference committee report on H.B. No. 1140 on May 30, 1999,
         by a viva-voce vote.
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                                                 Secretary of the Senate
         APPROVED:  _____________________
                            Date
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                          Governor