Texas Election Code Title 2, Chapter 20 - Voter Registration Agencies

SUBCHAPTER A GENERAL PROVISIONS

• Texas Section 20.001 - Designation Of Voter Registration Agencies
  (a) The following state agencies are designated as voter registration agencies: (1) Health and Human Services Commission; (2) Department of Aging and Disability Services; (3)...
• Texas Section 20.002 - Agency-prescribed Registration Application Form
  Instead of using the official voter registration application form prescribed by the secretary of state, a voter registration agency may use an official form prescribed...
• Texas Section 20.003 - Official Declination Of Registration Form
  The officially prescribed form for a declination of a voter registration must include: (1) spaces for the person's signature and printed name and the date...
• Texas Section 20.004 - Agency Coordinator
  (a) A voter registration agency shall designate one or more persons to coordinate the agency's voter registration program. The agency shall notify the secretary of...
• Texas Section 20.005 - Degree Of Assistance
  A voter registration agency shall provide the same degree of assistance, including any necessary bilingual assistance, to a person in completing a voter registration form...
• Texas Section 20.006 - Determination Of Eligibility
  (a) An employee of a voter registration agency may not make a determination about a person's eligibility for registration other than a determination of whether...
• Texas Section 20.007 - Prohibited Acts
  An employee of a voter registration agency may not: (1) seek to influence an applicant's political party preference; (2) display any political party preference or...
• Texas Section 20.008 - Assistance By Secretary Of State Or Registrar
  If a question arises concerning voter registration that an agency employee cannot answer, the employee shall provide the person: (1) the toll-free telephone number of...

SUBCHAPTER B REGISTRATION ASSISTANCE GENERALLY

• Texas Section 20.009 - Additional Procedures
  The secretary of state shall prescribe any additional procedures necessary for the orderly and proper administration of voter registration procedures under this chapter. Added by...
• Texas Section 20.031 - Form Provided
  A voter registration agency shall provide a voter registration application form to each person who is of voting age and a United States citizen in...
• Texas Section 20.032 - Registration Procedures
  (a) An appropriate agency employee shall routinely inform each person who applies in person for agency services of the opportunity to complete a voter registration...
• Texas Section 20.033 - Effect Of Submission Of Application To Employee
  The date of submission of a completed registration application to the agency employee is considered to be the date of submission to the voter registrar...
• Texas Section 20.034 - Submission To Registrar By Applicant
  (a) The applicant may keep the registration application form or the completed application to submit the application personally to the voter registrar. (b) The agency...
• Texas Section 20.035 - Delivery Of Applications To Registrar
  (a) The agency shall deliver to the voter registrar of the county in which the agency office is located each completed registration application submitted to...
• Texas Section 20.036 - Declination Of Registration
  (a) If the applicant does not wish to complete a voter registration application form, the agency employee shall request that the applicant complete and sign...

SUBCHAPTER C DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY

• Texas Section 20.037 - Telephone Or Mail Services
  (a) A voter registration agency that allows a person to apply for services by mail shall deliver to an applicant by mail a voter registration...
• Texas Section 20.061 - Applicability Of Other Provisions
  The other provisions of this chapter apply to the Department of Public Safety except provisions that conflict with this subchapter. Added by Acts 1995, 74th...
• Texas Section 20.062 - Department Forms And Procedure
  (a) The Department of Public Safety shall prescribe and use a form and procedure that combines the department's application form for a license or card...
• Texas Section 20.063 - Registration Procedures
  (a) The Department of Public Safety shall provide to each person who applies in person at the department's offices for an original or renewal of...
• Texas Section 20.064 - Declination Form Not Required
  The Department of Public Safety is not required to comply with the procedures prescribed by this chapter relating to the form for a declination of...
• Texas Section 20.065 - Delivery Of Applications And Changes Of Address
  (a) At the end of each day a Department of Public Safety office is regularly open for business, the manager of the office shall deliver...

SUBCHAPTER D PUBLIC LIBRARY

• Texas Section 20.066 - Registration Procedures
  (a) If a person completes a voter registration application as provided by Section 20.063, the Department of Public Safety shall: (1) input the information provided...
• Texas Section 20.091 - Applicability Of Other Provisions
  The other provisions of this chapter apply to a public library except provisions that conflict with this subchapter. Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch....
• Texas Section 20.092 - Registration Procedure
  (a) A public library shall provide to each person of voting age who applies in person for an original or renewal of a library card...

SUBCHAPTER E MARRIAGE LICENSE OFFICE

• Texas Section 20.093 - Declination Form Not Required
  A public library is not required to comply with the procedures prescribed by this chapter relating to the form for a declination of voter registration....
• Texas Section 20.121 - Applicability Of Other Provisions
  The other provisions of this chapter do not apply to a marriage license office of the county clerk unless expressly provided otherwise by the other...
• Texas Section 20.122 - Registration Procedures
  (a) When an original marriage license is returned to the licensees after being recorded, the county clerk shall also deliver to the licensees by mail...
• Texas Section 20.123 - Declination Form Not Required
  The county clerk is not required to comply with the procedures prescribed by this chapter relating to the form for a declination of voter registration....

Last modified: September 28, 2016