Bill Text: TX HB2449 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the procedures for voting ballots by mail.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 9-1)
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective on 9/1/11 [HB2449 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB2449-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 2449 | ||
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| relating to the procedures for voting ballots by mail. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 86.006, Election Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subsection (g-1) to read as follows: | ||
| (g-1) When ballots or carrier envelopes are obtained in | ||
| violation of this section pursuant to one scheme or continuing | ||
| course of conduct, whether from the same or several sources, the | ||
| conduct may be considered as one offense and the number of ballots | ||
| or carrier envelopes aggregated in determining the grade of the | ||
| offense. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 86.014(a), Election Code, is amended to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| (a) A copy of an application for a ballot to be voted by mail | ||
| is not available for public inspection, except to the voter seeking | ||
| to verify that the information pertaining to the voter is accurate, | ||
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| SECTION 3. The change in law made by this Act applies only | ||
| to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this Act. | ||
| An offense committed before the effective date of this Act is | ||
| governed by the law in effect when the offense was committed, and | ||
| the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. For | ||
| purposes of this section, an offense was committed before the | ||
| effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurred | ||
| before that date. | ||
| SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 2449 was passed by the House on May | ||
| 13, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 112, Nays 16, 2 present, not | ||
| voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B. | ||
| No. 2449 on May 26, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 140, Nays 1, | ||
| 2 present, not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 2449 was passed by the Senate, with | ||
| amendments, on May 24, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 28, Nays | ||
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| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: __________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| __________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
