Bill Text: TX HB4206 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a notice of the delivery of provisional ballots.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-21 - Referred to Elections [HB4206 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB4206-Introduced.html
88R6286 MLH-D | ||
By: DeAyala | H.B. No. 4206 |
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relating to a notice of the delivery of provisional ballots. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 65.053, Election Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
Sec. 65.053. DELIVERY OF PROVISIONAL BALLOTS. (a) The | ||
presiding judge of an election precinct shall deliver in person to | ||
the general custodian of election records the box containing each | ||
envelope containing a provisional ballot that was cast in the | ||
precinct. The secretary of state shall prescribe procedures by | ||
which the early voting ballot board may have access to the | ||
provisional ballots as necessary to implement this subchapter. | ||
(b) The presiding judge of an election precinct shall daily | ||
prepare a notice of the number of provisional ballots delivered to | ||
the general custodian of elections records under Subsection (a) and | ||
deliver the notice to, as applicable: | ||
(1) the central counting station; | ||
(2) the counting station designated under Section | ||
127.001(b); or | ||
(3) the early voting ballot board. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |