Bill Text: TX HB1054 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to the offense of retaliation against a presidential elector.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-04-17 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB1054 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-HB1054-Introduced.html
  85R5811 ATP-D
 
  By: Zedler H.B. No. 1054
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the offense of retaliation against a presidential
  elector.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 276.001(a), Election Code, is amended to
  read as follows:
         (a)  A person commits an offense if, in retaliation against a
  voter, including a presidential elector, who has voted for or
  against a candidate or measure or a voter who has refused to reveal
  how the voter voted, the person knowingly:
               (1)  harms or threatens to harm the voter by an unlawful
  act; or
               (2)  with respect to a voter over whom the person has
  authority in the scope of employment, subjects or threatens to
  subject the voter to a loss or reduction of wages or another benefit
  of employment.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.
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