Bill Text: TX HB102 | 2021 | 87th Legislature 1st Special Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the creation, suspension, or alteration of voting standards, practices, or procedures.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-07-09 - Referred to Constitutional Rights & Remedies [HB102 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB102-Introduced.html
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| By: Schofield | H.B. No. 102 | |
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| relating to the creation, suspension, or alteration of voting | ||
| standards, practices, or procedures. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 1, Election Code, is amended by adding | ||
| Section 1.022 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 1.022. ALTERATION OF VOTING STANDARDS, PRACTICES, OR | ||
| PROCEDURES. An election official of this state or a political | ||
| subdivision of this state may not create, suspend, or alter any | ||
| voting standard, practice, or procedure in a manner not otherwise | ||
| expressly authorized by this code. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
| provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
| Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
| Act takes effect on the 91st day after the last day of the | ||
| legislative session. | ||
