Bill Text: TX HB169 | 2021 | 87th Legislature 2nd Special Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the acceptance of a provisional ballot after a natural disaster.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-08-23 - Referred to Constitutional Rights & Remedies [HB169 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB169-Introduced.html
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| By: Martinez | H.B. No. 169 | |
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| relating to the acceptance of a provisional ballot after a natural | ||
| disaster. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 65.054(b), Election Code, is amended to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| (b) A provisional ballot shall be accepted if the board | ||
| determines that: | ||
| (1) from the information in the affidavit or contained | ||
| in public records, the person is eligible to vote in the election | ||
| and has not previously voted in that election; | ||
| (2) the person: | ||
| (A) meets the identification requirements of | ||
| Section 63.001(b) at the time the ballot was cast or in the period | ||
| prescribed under Section 65.0541; | ||
| (B) notwithstanding Chapter 110, Civil Practice | ||
| and Remedies Code, executes an affidavit under penalty of perjury | ||
| that states the voter has a religious objection to being | ||
| photographed and the voter has consistently refused to be | ||
| photographed for any governmental purpose from the time the voter | ||
| has held this belief; or | ||
| (C) executes an affidavit under penalty of | ||
| perjury that states the voter does not have any identification | ||
| meeting the requirements of Section 63.001(b) as a result of a | ||
| natural disaster that was declared by the president of the United | ||
| States or the governor, occurred not earlier than the 60th day [ |
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| destruction of or inability to access the voter's identification; | ||
| and | ||
| (3) the voter has not been challenged and voted a | ||
| provisional ballot solely because the voter did not meet the | ||
| requirements for identification prescribed by Section 63.001(b). | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect on the 91st day after the | ||
| last day of the legislative session. | ||
