Bill Text: TX HB332 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the use of school district buildings as polling place locations.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 4-1)
Status: (Passed) 2017-06-15 - Effective on 9/1/17 [HB332 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB332-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 332 | ||
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| relating to the use of school district buildings as polling place | ||
| locations. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 37.108, Education Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subsection (e) to read as follows: | ||
| (e) A school district shall include in its multihazard | ||
| emergency operations plan a policy for school district property | ||
| selected for use as a polling place under Section 43.031, Election | ||
| Code. In developing the policy under this subsection, the board of | ||
| trustees may consult with the local law enforcement agency with | ||
| jurisdiction over the school district property selected as a | ||
| polling place regarding reasonable security accommodations that | ||
| may be made to the property. This subsection may not be interpreted | ||
| to require the board of trustees to obtain or contract for the | ||
| presence of law enforcement or security personnel for the purpose | ||
| of securing a polling place located on school district property. | ||
| Failure to comply with this subsection does not affect the | ||
| requirement of the board of trustees to make a school facility | ||
| available for use as a polling place under Section 43.031, Election | ||
| Code. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 332 was passed by the House on May 4, | ||
| 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 142, Nays 1, 2 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 332 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 24, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
