79R13969 JRJ-D
By: Bohac H.B. No. 1268
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1268:
By: Anderson C.S.H.B. No. 1268
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the information included on a voter registration
application.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 13.002(c), Election Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(c) A registration application must include:
(1) the applicant's first name, middle name, if any,
last name, and former name, if any;
(2) the month, day, and year of the applicant's birth;
(3) a statement that the applicant is a United States
citizen;
(4) a statement that the applicant is a resident of the
county;
(5) a statement that the applicant has not been
determined mentally incompetent by a final judgment of a court;
(6) a statement that the applicant has not been
finally convicted of a felony or that the applicant is a felon
eligible for registration under Section 13.001;
(7) the applicant's residence address or, if the
residence has no address, the address at which the applicant
receives mail and a concise description of the location of the
applicant's residence;
(8) the following information:
(A) the applicant's Texas driver's license number
or the number of a personal identification card issued by the
Department of Public Safety or a statement by the applicant that the
applicant has not been issued a driver's license or personal
identification card; or
(B) if the applicant has not been issued a number
described by Paragraph (A), the last four digits of the applicant's
social security number[;] or
[(C)] a statement by the applicant that the
applicant has not been issued a social security number [described
by Paragraph (A) or (B)];
(9) if the application is made by an agent, a statement
of the agent's relationship to the applicant; and
(10) the city and county in which the applicant
formerly resided.
SECTION 2. Section 13.004(c), Election Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(c) A social security number, Texas driver's license
number, [or] number of a personal identification card issued by the
Department of Public Safety, or an indication that an applicant is
interested in working as an election judge furnished on a
registration application is confidential and does not constitute
public information for purposes of Chapter 552, Government Code.
The registrar shall ensure that a social security number, Texas
driver's license number, [or] number of a personal identification
card issued by the Department of Public Safety, or an indication
that an applicant is interested in working as an election judge is
excluded from disclosure.
SECTION 3. Section 13.122(a), Election Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(a) In addition to the other statements and spaces for
entering information that appear on an officially prescribed
registration application form, each official form must include:
(1) the statement: "I understand that giving false
information to procure a voter registration is perjury and a crime
under state and federal law.";
(2) a space for the applicant's registration number;
(3) a space for the applicant's Texas driver's license
number or number of a personal identification card issued by the
Department of Public Safety;
(4) a space for the applicant's telephone number;
(5) a space for the applicant's social security
number;
(6) a space for the applicant's sex;
(7) a statement indicating that the furnishing of the
applicant's telephone number and sex is optional;
(8) a space or box for indicating whether the
applicant or voter is submitting new registration information or a
change in current registration information;
(9) a statement instructing a voter who is using the
form to make a change in current registration information to enter
the voter's name and the changed information in the appropriate
spaces on the form;
(10) a statement that if the applicant declines to
register to vote, that fact will remain confidential and will be
used only for voter registration purposes;
(11) a statement that if the applicant does register
to vote, information regarding the agency or office to which the
application is submitted will remain confidential and will be used
only for voter registration purposes; [and]
(12) a space or box for indicating whether the
applicant is interested in working as an election judge;
(13) a statement warning that a conviction for making
a false statement may result in imprisonment for up to the maximum
amount of time provided by law, a fine of up to the maximum amount
provided by law, or both the imprisonment and the fine; and
(14) any other voter registration information
required by federal law or considered appropriate and required by
the secretary of state.
SECTION 4. The change in law made by this Act applies only
to an application for voter registration that is submitted on or
after the effective date of this Act.
SECTION 5. This Act takes effect January 1, 2006.