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CHAPTER 726 H.B. No. 1509 1 AN ACT 2 relating to the requirements for the validity of a signature on 3 certain petitions. 4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 5 SECTION 1. Section 141.063(a), Election Code, is amended to 6 read as follows: 7 (a) A signature on a petition is valid if: 8 (1) except as otherwise provided by this code, the 9 signer, at the time of signing, is a registered voter of the 10 territory from which the office sought is elected or has been issued 11 a registration certificate for a registration that will become 12 effective in that territory on or before the date of the applicable 13 election; 14 (2) the petition includes the following information 15 with respect to each signer: 16 (A) the signer's residence address; 17 (B) the signer's date of birth or [&4] the 18 signer's voter registration number and, if the territory from which 19 signatures must be obtained is situated in more than one county, the 20 county of registration; 21 (C) the date of signing; and 22 (D) the signer's printed name; 23 (3) the part of the petition in which the signature 24 appears contains the affidavit required by Section 141.065;
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Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 1509, Chapter 726,
legislative document,
June 17, 2005;
[Austin, Texas].
(https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth156536/m1/1/:
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