Bill Text: TX HB1460 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to an election officer providing and receiving an application for annual mail ballots at a polling place.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-02-27 - Referred to Elections [HB1460 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-HB1460-Introduced.html

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86R7085 SRS-D
By: González of Dallas H.B. No. 1460

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to an election officer providing and receiving an
application for annual mail ballots at a polling place.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 61, Election Code, is
amended by adding Section 61.015 to read as follows:
Sec. 61.015. APPLICATION FOR EARLY VOTING BALLOT AT POLLING
PLACE. (a) An election officer may provide to and accept from a
voter who qualifies to receive ballots to be voted by mail under
Section 86.0015, an application for a ballot to be voted by mail and
may provide instructions for submitting the application under
Section 86.0015.
(b) An election officer may post at a polling place a sign in
the form prescribed by the secretary of state under Subsection (c)
that refers to the availability of application forms for an early
voting ballot to be voted by mail if the election officers have the
applications.
(c) The secretary of state:
(1) shall prescribe a sign that may be posted at a
polling place that refers to the availability of application forms
for an early voting ballot to be voted by mail; and
(2) may adopt rules as necessary to implement this
section.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.