By: Ellis	S.B. No. 216
	(In the Senate - Filed November 17, 2010; January 31, 2011,
	read first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
	April 6, 2011, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
	Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 9, Nays 0; April 6, 2011,
	sent to printer.)
	COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 216	By:  Ellis

	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to procedures related to the placement of a voter on the
	suspense list.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1.  Section 14.022, Election Code, is amended to
	read as follows:
	Sec. 14.022.  ERRONEOUS RETURN OF RENEWAL CERTIFICATE.
	(a)  A voter registrar shall determine whether [If the registrar
	determines that] a voter's renewal certificate was returned
	undelivered solely because of postal service error, address
	reclassification, or the registrar's clerical error. If the
	registrar determines that the certificate was returned solely
	because of that error or reclassification, the registrar shall
	delete the voter's name from the suspense list, make any other
	appropriate corrections in the registration records, and deliver
	the certificate to the voter.
	(b)  The secretary of state shall adopt rules for the
	determination under this section of whether a voter's renewal
	certificate was returned undelivered solely because of postal
	service error, address reclassification, or the registrar's
	clerical error.
	SECTION 2.  Section 63.0011, Election Code, is amended by
	adding Subsection (f) to read as follows:
	(f)  The secretary of state shall adopt rules to provide for
	the uniform and auditable processing of a statement of residence
	required under this section.
	SECTION 3.  The change in law made by this Act to Section
	14.022, Election Code, applies only to a voter registration renewal
	certificate returned undelivered and received by a voter registrar
	on or after the effective date of this Act. A voter registration
	renewal certificate returned undelivered and received by a voter
	registrar before the effective date of this Act is governed by the
	law in effect when the registrar received the undelivered
	certificate, and the former law is continued in effect for that
	purpose.
	SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.
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