By Brown of Kaufman                                   H.B. No. 1135
         77R3843 GGS-D                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to filing abstracts of death certificates with the voter
 1-3     registrar.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1. Section 16.001(a), Election Code, is amended to
 1-6     read as follows:
 1-7           (a)  The [Each month the] local registrar of deaths shall
 1-8     prepare an abstract of each death certificate issued [in the month]
 1-9     for a decedent 18 years of age or older who was a resident of the
1-10     state at the time of death.  The local registrar of deaths shall
1-11     file each abstract with the voter registrar of the decedent's
1-12     county of residence not later than the 10th day after the date the
1-13     death certificate is issued [of the month following the month in
1-14     which the abstract is prepared].
1-15           SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2001.