H.B. No. 2636




AN ACT

relating to notifying an applicant of the omission of certain 
information from a federal postcard application to vote in an 
election.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Section 101.004, Election Code, is amended by 
amending Subsection (j) and adding Subsection (k) to read as 
follows:
	(j)  If the early voting clerk determines that an application 
that is submitted before the time prescribed by Subsection (e)(1) 
does not contain the information that is required for registration 
under Title 2, the clerk shall notify the applicant of that fact.  
If the applicant has provided a telephone number or an address for 
receiving mail over the Internet, the clerk shall notify the 
applicant by that medium.
	(k)  If the applicant submits the missing information before 
the time prescribed by Subsection (e)(1), the applicant is entitled 
to receive a full ballot to be voted by mail under this chapter.  If 
the applicant submits the missing information after the time 
prescribed by Subsection (e)(1), the applicant is entitled to 
receive a full ballot to be voted by mail for the next election that 
occurs:
		(1)  in the same calendar year;  and                                          
		(2)  at least 30 days after the date the information is 
submitted.          
	SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2003.                           




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   President of the Senate                               Speaker of the House      

	I certify that H.B. No. 2636 was passed by the House on May 2, 
2003, by a non-record vote.

                                                  ______________________________
                                                     Chief Clerk of the House   

	I certify that H.B. No. 2636 was passed by the Senate on May 
28, 2003, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0.

                                                  ______________________________
                                                     Secretary of the Senate    



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                 Governor