Bill Text: TX HB631 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Comm Sub

Texas House Bill 631 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relating to processing certain early voting ballots before election day.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-05-12 - Laid on the table subject to call [HB631 Detail]

Download: Texas-2011-HB631-Comm_Sub.html



	By: Chisum	H.B. No. 631




	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

	AN ACT

	relating to processing certain early voting ballots before election

	day.

	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

	SECTION 1. Section 87.0241, Election Code, is amended by

	amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsection (d) to read as

	follows:

	(b) Except as provided by Subsection (d), the [~~The~~] board

	may not count early voting ballots until:

	(1) the polls open on election day; or

	(2) in an election conducted by an authority of a

	county with a population of 100,000 or more or conducted jointly

	with such a county, the end of the period for early voting by

	personal appearance.

	(d) An early voting ballot board may establish a process for

	removing data from voting machines used in early voting before the

	polls open on election day if:

	(1) the county will use the voting machines on

	election day; and

	(2) the secretary of state approves the process.

	SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2009.