1-1     By:  Thompson (Senate Sponsor - Armbrister)           H.B. No. 1140
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House May 11, 1999;
 1-3     May 12, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal
 1-4     Justice; May 14, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:
 1-5     Yeas 5, Nays 0; May 14, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to notice to voter registrars concerning persons convicted
 1-9     of a felony.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Section 16.003, Election Code, is amended to read
1-12     as follows:
1-13           Sec. 16.003.  FELONY CONVICTION.  (a)  Each month the
1-14     Department of Public Safety shall prepare an abstract of
1-15     information received under Chapter 60, Code of Criminal Procedure,
1-16     [both the clerk of each court having felony jurisdiction] and the
1-17     institutional division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice
1-18     shall prepare an abstract of each final judgment of a court [served
1-19     by the clerk or] received by the institutional division, [ as
1-20     applicable,] occurring in the month, convicting a person 18 years
1-21     of age or older who is a resident of the state of a felony.
1-22           (b)  The Department of Public Safety [clerk] and the
1-23     institutional division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice
1-24     shall file each abstract with the voter registrar of the person's
1-25     county of residence within a reasonable period and in accordance
1-26     with guidelines adopted by the respective agency [not later than
1-27     the 10th day of the month following the month in  which the
1-28     abstract is prepared].
1-29           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-30           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-31     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-32     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-33     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-34     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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