Bill Text: TX HB962 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a study on the feasibility of electronic voter registration and applications for a ballot to be voted by mail for overseas military personnel.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-02-27 - Referred to Elections [HB962 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB962-Introduced.html
| 85R2061 ADM-D | ||
| By: Arévalo | H.B. No. 962 | |
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| relating to a study on the feasibility of electronic voter | ||
| registration and applications for a ballot to be voted by mail for | ||
| overseas military personnel. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 101, Election Code, is amended by adding | ||
| Subchapter D to read as follows: | ||
| SUBCHAPTER D. FEASIBILITY STUDY OF ONLINE PROCESSES FOR OVERSEAS | ||
| MILITARY PERSONNEL | ||
| Sec. 101.151. FEASIBILITY STUDY OF ONLINE PROCESSES FOR | ||
| OVERSEAS MILITARY PERSONNEL. (a) The secretary of state shall | ||
| conduct a study to consider the feasibility of creating an entirely | ||
| electronic process for a person eligible for early voting by mail | ||
| under Section 101.001(2)(A) or (B) to: | ||
| (1) register to vote; and | ||
| (2) request an early voting ballot to be voted by mail. | ||
| (b) The study must examine what assistance the secretary of | ||
| state could provide to counties to facilitate implementation of the | ||
| processes described by Subsection (a). | ||
| Sec. 101.152. EXPIRATION. This subchapter expires | ||
| September 1, 2019. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
| provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
| Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
| Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
