Bill Text: TX HB1595 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced

Texas House Bill 1595 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: Relating to an early voting ballot voted by mail.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2017-05-26 - Returned from the House for further action [HB1595 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-HB1595-Introduced.html

	85R9112 GRM-F

	By: Bohac	H.B. No. 1595



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to the dates to provide a ballot by mail to a voter.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 86.004(a), Election Code, is amended to
	read as follows:
	(a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), the balloting
	materials for voting by mail shall be mailed to a voter entitled to
	vote by mail not later than the seventh calendar day after the later
	of the date the clerk accepts the voter's application for a ballot
	to be voted by mail or the date the ballots become available for
	mailing, except that if that mailing date is earlier than the 45th
	day before election day, the balloting materials shall be mailed
	not later than the 30th [~~38th~~] day before election day.
	SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.