SB1470

New Election Code 18.0625 requires DPS to share any data related to individuals who hold a Texas driver’s license or personal identification card and apply for one in another state, for implementation of this section. The secretary of state’s required use concerns registered voters in that group. The purpose is maintaining the statewide list and preventing duplicate registration across states or jurisdictions. The secretary may adopt rules and procedures in consultation with DPS. The act does not specify a data-transfer schedule or a particular computer matching system. Final law.

The reference to Section 11.002(a)(4) is to the felony-conviction qualification, not the separate residency or citizenship qualifications. That provision includes people who have fully discharged their sentence, including incarceration, parole or supervision, or completed court-ordered probation, and people pardoned or otherwise released from the voting disability. Deferred proceedings without an adjudication of guilt are not a final conviction for that provision. The reference should not be summarized as a lifetime voting ban for everyone with a felony history. Qualified-voter definition; Final law.

Texas already had a statewide voter list and an interstate crosscheck framework. SB1470 adds a specific required data source; it does not itself add an automatic cancellation command based merely on an out-of-state license application, decide any individual’s eligibility or create a new criminal offense. Existing registration-confirmation and cancellation provisions are separate from this two-section act. All five published operative versions are identical, and no floor amendments are listed. Existing statewide list; Existing crosscheck framework; Existing residence-confirmation provision; Existing official-notice cancellation provision; Introduced; Senate committee; Senate-passed; House committee; Final law; Version index; Amendment index.

Compare the published text versions in the official text index. A change is not attributed to a specific amendment here without a verified record.

The election office gains a required flow of licensing data to help identify records needing attention. DPS and election officials must implement the sharing and use requirements. The act does not establish how many records will match, how accurate those matches will be or how many registrations will change. An identified record is not, by this act alone, proof that a person voted twice or is currently ineligible. This explanation describes SB1470’s changes, not a complete statement of all state and federal voter-removal law. Final law.

The March 18 fiscal note anticipates no significant state fiscal impact based on information from DPS and the secretary of state, and no significant local fiscal impact. It supplies no quantified savings or accuracy estimate. The act makes no appropriation. Fiscal note.