Tex. Elec. Code § 20.037 · Subchapter B. REGISTRATION ASSISTANCE GENERALLY
TELEPHONE OR MAIL SERVICES.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(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 application form on the approval of services for the applicant.
(b) An agency shall deliver to an applicant by mail a voter registration application form if:
(1) the agency automatically notifies an applicant to renew or recertify a service by mailing a form to the applicant; or
(2) the applicant requests services by telephone and the agency provides services in that manner.
(c) An application form delivered by mail must be accompanied by a notice informing the applicant that the application may be submitted in person or by mail to the voter registrar of the county in which the applicant resides or in person to a volunteer deputy registrar for delivery to the voter registrar of the county in which the applicant resides.
(d) The agency may maintain a written record indicating that a registration application was delivered to an applicant.
(e) The agency is not required to deliver a declination of registration form under this section.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 797, Sec. 33, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.
Source of truth
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/EL/htm/EL.20.htm
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