1-1     By:  Jones of Dallas, Hodge                           H.B. No. 2921
 1-2          (Senate Sponsor - Whitmire)
 1-3           (In the Senate - Received from the House May 10, 2001;
 1-4     May 10, 2001, read first time and referred to Committee on State
 1-5     Affairs; May 11, 2001, reported favorably by the following vote:
 1-6     Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 11, 2001, sent to printer.)
 1-7                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-8                                   AN ACT
 1-9     relating to requiring verification of information regarding
1-10     potentially ineligible voters produced for a county by a private
1-11     business entity.
1-12           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-13           SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 18, Election Code, is
1-14     amended by adding Section 18.0121 to read as follows:
1-15           Sec. 18.0121.  CONTRACT TO INVESTIGATE VOTER ELIGIBILITY.  A
1-16     list of potentially ineligible voters produced for a county by a
1-17     private business entity may not be made available to the public or
1-18     otherwise used by the registrar unless the registrar has verified
1-19     the accuracy of the information on the list through available
1-20     public records.
1-21           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2001.
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