Bill Text: TX HB396 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to providing a federal postcard applicant with a ballot for certain elections in which the applicant is eligible to vote.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/13 [HB396 Detail]

Download: Texas-2013-HB396-Introduced.html

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83R1358 ADM-F
By: Thompson of Harris H.B. No. 396

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to providing a federal postcard applicant with a ballot
for any election in which the applicant is eligible to vote.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 101.054, Election Code, is amended by
amending Subsections (a) and (b) and adding Subsection (b-1) to
read as follows:
(a) A person may apply with a single federal postcard
application for a ballot for any one or more elections in which the
person is eligible to vote [the early voting clerk to whom the
application is submitted conducts early voting].
(b) An application that does not identify the election for
which a ballot is requested shall be treated as if it requests a
ballot for:
(1) each general or special election held within one
year after the date the application is received in which the person
is eligible to vote [in which the clerk conducts early voting]; and
(2) the general primary election if the application
indicates party preference and is received within one year before
the date of the general primary election [submitted to the early
voting clerk for the primary].
(b-1) If an application under Subsection (b) indicates the
person is eligible to vote in an election in which the early voting
clerk who received the application does not conduct early voting,
the clerk shall forward a copy of the application in a form
prescribed by the secretary of state to each early voting clerk who
conducts early voting for an election in which the person is
eligible to vote.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.