Bill Text: TX HB3964 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the location of countywide polling places within a county.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-05-09 - Placed on General State Calendar [HB3964 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB3964-Comm_Sub.html
86R28429 ATP-F | |||
By: Bohac | H.B. No. 3964 | ||
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3964: | |||
By: Burrows | C.S.H.B. No. 3964 |
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relating to the location of countywide polling places within a | ||
county. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 43.007(m), Election Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(m) In adopting a methodology under Subsection (f), the | ||
county must ensure that: | ||
(1) in a county with a population of less than one | ||
million, each county commissioners precinct contains at least one | ||
countywide polling place and the percentage of the total number of | ||
countywide polling places located in each commissioners precinct | ||
must be as equal as mathematically possible to the percentage of | ||
registered voters of the county whose registrations are effective | ||
on the date of the election residing in each commissioners | ||
precinct; or [ |
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(2) in a county with a population of one million or | ||
more, the percentage of the total number of countywide polling | ||
places located in each state representative district in the county | ||
containing territory in which the election is held must be as equal | ||
as mathematically possible to the percentage of registered voters | ||
of the county whose registrations are effective on the date of the | ||
election residing in each state representative district [ |
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SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |