Bill Text: TX HB3763 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced

Texas House Bill 3763 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to the use of certain optical scan ballot technology by an election authority operating a central counting station.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-20 - Referred to Elections [HB3763 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB3763-Introduced.html

	88R13331 TSS-D

	By: Bucy	H.B. No. 3763



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to the use of certain optical scan ballot technology by an
	election authority operating a central counting station.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Subchapter E, Chapter 127, Election Code, is
	amended by adding Section 127.133 to read as follows:
	Sec. 127.133. STUDY ON OPTICAL SCAN BALLOT TECHNOLOGY. (a)
	The secretary of state shall conduct a study to consider the
	feasibility of requiring an election authority operating a central
	counting station under this chapter who uses a centrally counted
	optical ballot scan system to only use data storage discs on which
	information, once written, is not capable of being modified. The
	study must consider:
	(1) whether the technology exists that would allow the
	requirement to be attainable by election authorities in this state;
	and
	(2) the cost of implementing the requirement for each
	state and county election official.
	(b) Not later than October 1, 2024, the secretary of state
	shall create a detailed report including a summary of the findings
	of the study and the secretary of state's recommendations on
	whether the requirement described by Subsection (a) should become
	law, and:
	(1) deliver the report to the legislature; and
	(2) make the report publicly available.
	(c) This section expires December 1, 2024.
	SECTION 2. Sections 127.1301(b), (c), (d), and (e),
	Election Code, are repealed.
	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, 2023.