Bill Text: TX HB326 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a strategic plan by the secretary of state to increase voter turnout.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-25 - Left pending in committee [HB326 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB326-Introduced.html
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| By: Ortega | H.B. No. 326 | |
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| relating to a strategic plan by the secretary of state to increase | ||
| voter turnout. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 31, Election Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 31.014 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 31.014. VOTER TURNOUT STRATEGIC PLAN. (a) The | ||
| secretary of state shall prepare and implement a strategic plan | ||
| aimed at increasing voter turnout. | ||
| (b) In developing the plan, the secretary of state shall use | ||
| evidence-based methods of increasing voter turnout and shall | ||
| collaborate with institutions of higher education to determine the | ||
| most appropriate measures of success and develop performance | ||
| benchmarks for the increase in voter turnout. | ||
| (c) Not later than December 1 of each even-numbered year, | ||
| the secretary of state shall report on the progress of the strategic | ||
| plan under this section in increasing voter turnout using the most | ||
| recently updated data to the standing committee of each house of the | ||
| legislature with primary jurisdiction over election matters. | ||
| (d) This section expires January 1, 2025. | ||
| SECTION 2. The secretary of state shall adopt the strategic | ||
| plan under Section 31.014, Election Code, as added by this Act, not | ||
| later than January 1, 2020, to be fully implemented not later than | ||
| December 31, 2024. | ||
| 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, 2019. | ||
