Bill Text: TX HB2931 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the authority of an election judge to have certain persons removed from a polling place.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-05-07 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB2931 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB2931-Comm_Sub.html
| 83R26280 ADM-D | |||
| By: Capriglione | H.B. No. 2931 | ||
| Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2931: | |||
| By: Morrison | C.S.H.B. No. 2931 | ||
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| relating to the authority of an election judge to have certain | ||
| persons removed from a polling place. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 32, Election Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 32.076 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 32.076. REMOVAL OF WATCHER, ALTERNATE PRESIDING JUDGE, | ||
| OR CLERK FROM POLLING PLACE. (a) A presiding judge may not remove a | ||
| watcher, alternate presiding judge, or election clerk from a | ||
| polling place unless: | ||
| (1) the presiding judge believes that the watcher, | ||
| alternate presiding judge, or clerk has violated a law, and has | ||
| communicated to that person, in a written and signed document, the | ||
| specific law the presiding judge believes the person violated; or | ||
| (2) the removal is pursuant to an arrest warrant | ||
| issued by the presiding judge under Section 32.075(c). | ||
| (b) A presiding judge shall, as soon as possible after a | ||
| removal under this section, inform the county clerk, county | ||
| elections administrator, or similar official administering the | ||
| election for a political subdivision of the removal. | ||
| SECTION 2. 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, 2013. | ||
