Bill Text: TX HB3072 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a requirement for photo identification for poll watchers.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-03-18 - Referred to Elections [HB3072 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB3072-Introduced.html
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| By: Veasey | H.B. No. 3072 | |
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| relating to a requirement for photo identification for poll | ||
| watchers. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 33.051(b), Election Code, is amended to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| (b) The officer presented with a watcher's certificate of | ||
| appointment shall require the watcher to countersign the | ||
| certificate and to present a form of photo identification described | ||
| by Section 63.0101 to ensure that the watcher is the same person who | ||
| signed the certificate. Except as provided by Subsection (c), a | ||
| watcher who presents himself or herself at the proper time with a | ||
| certificate of appointment and appropriate identification shall be | ||
| accepted for service unless the person is ineligible to serve or the | ||
| number of appointees to which the appointing authority is entitled | ||
| have already been accepted. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011. | ||
