Bill Text: TX SB1683 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to providing a federal postcard applicant with a ballot for any election in which the applicant is eligible to vote.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-03-25 - Referred to State Affairs [SB1683 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-SB1683-Introduced.html
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By: Huffman | S.B. No. 1683 |
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relating to providing a federal postcard applicant with a ballot | ||
for any election in which the applicant is eligible to vote. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 101.054, Election Code, is amended by | ||
amending Subsections (a) and (b) and adding Subsection (b-1) to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(a) A person may apply with a single federal postcard | ||
application for a ballot for any one or more elections in which the | ||
person is eligible to vote [ |
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(b) An application that does not identify the election for | ||
which a ballot is requested shall be treated as if it requests a | ||
ballot for: | ||
(1) each general or special election held within one | ||
year after the date the application is received in which the person | ||
is eligible to vote [ |
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(2) the general primary election if the application | ||
indicates party preference and is received within one year before | ||
the date of the general primary election [ |
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(b-1) If an application under Subsection (b) indicates the | ||
person is eligible to vote in an election in which the early voting | ||
clerk who received the application does not conduct early voting, | ||
the clerk shall forward a copy of the application in a form | ||
prescribed by the secretary of state to each early voting clerk who | ||
conducts early voting for an election in which the person is | ||
eligible to vote. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. |