Bill Text: TX HB273 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub

Texas House Bill 273 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: Relating to the time for providing a ballot to be voted by mail to a voter.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)

Status: (Passed) 2019-06-10 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB273 Detail]

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	By: Swanson, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Zaffirini)	H.B. No. 273
	(In the Senate - Received from the House April 15, 2019;
	April 16, 2019, read first time and referred to Committee on State
	Affairs; May 10, 2019, reported favorably by the following vote:
	Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 10, 2019, sent to printer.)
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	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT

	relating to the time for providing a ballot to be voted 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 37th
	[~~45th~~] day before election day, the balloting materials shall be
	mailed not later than the 30th day before election day.
	SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only
	to an election ordered on or after September 1, 2019.
	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.

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