Bill Text: TX HB1873 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced

Texas House Bill 1873 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to renewing the application to receive ballots to be voted by mail for certain elections held during a calendar year.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-13 - Referred to Elections [HB1873 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-HB1873-Introduced.html

	85R4872 ATP-F

	By: Thompson of Harris	H.B. No. 1873



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to renewing the application to receive ballots to be voted
	by mail for certain elections held during a calendar year.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 86.0015, Election Code, is amended by
	adding Subsections (g) and (h) to read as follows:
	(g) The county clerk shall provide to a voter who has
	applied for and qualifies to receive ballots to be voted by mail
	under this section, with the ballot for an election held on the
	November uniform election date, an application for a ballot to be
	voted by mail and instructions for submitting the application under
	this subsection. The application:
	(1) must be preprinted so that the voter is required
	only to sign and date the application;
	(2) may be returned with the voter's ballot in the
	carrier envelope;
	(3) applies to each election that occurs before
	December 31 of the next even-numbered year following the November
	election, notwithstanding Subsection (b)(2)(A); and
	(4) must be signed by the applicant, or by a witness as
	provided by Section 84.003.
	(h) The county clerk is not required to provide an
	application for a ballot to be voted by mail as provided by
	Subsection (g) in an odd-numbered year to a voter who has previously
	filed an application that covers elections for the next calendar
	year.
	SECTION 2. Section 87.044, Election Code, is amended by
	adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
	(c) The early voting ballot board shall deliver to the early
	voting clerk any early voting applications included as provided by
	Section 86.0015(g) in a carrier envelope with a ballot voted in an
	election held on the November uniform election date regardless of
	whether the ballot is accepted.
	SECTION 3. 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 September 1, 2017.