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.
_______________________________ _______________________________
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