Tex. Elec. Code § 141.068 · Subchapter C. PETITION
DUTY OF LOCAL AUTHORITY TO VERIFY SIGNATURES.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) On request of the secretary of state, a voter registrar shall verify the voter registration status of a signer of a petition filed with the secretary who the petition indicates is registered or has been accepted for registration in the county served by the registrar.
(b) On request of the secretary of state, a county clerk shall ascertain from the records in the clerk's custody whether a signer of a petition filed with the secretary is shown to have voted in a particular election.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 211, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1986.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/EL/htm/EL.141.htm
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- sha256 1e73b00228153d49fd3f9dafbcb2d8885e59ea8a7b6fb54c4b0fdcce16c202dd
- Composed by
- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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