Bill Text: TX HB4753 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced

Texas House Bill 4753 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to the distribution of an application for a ballot to be voted by mail.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-22 - Referred to Elections [HB4753 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB4753-Introduced.html

	88R1791 SGM-D

	By: Tinderholt	H.B. No. 4753



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to the distribution of an application for a ballot to be
	voted by mail.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 84.0111(a), Election Code, is amended to
	read as follows:
	(a) An [~~Except as provided by Subsection (c) or as otherwise~~
	~~authorized by this code, an~~] officer or employee of this state or of
	a political subdivision of this state may not distribute an
	application form for an early voting ballot to a person who did not
	request an application under Section 84.001.
	SECTION 2. Section 84.0111(c), Election Code, is repealed.
	SECTION 3. The changes in law made by this Act apply to an
	application form for an early voting ballot distributed on or after
	the effective date of this Act. The distribution of an application
	form for an early voting ballot before the effective date of this
	Act is governed by the law in effect on the date the application was
	distributed, and the former law is continued in effect for that
	purpose.
	SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.