Bill Text: TX SB1950 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub

Texas Senate Bill 1950

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Bill Title: Relating to accepting an early voting ballot voted by mail; creating a criminal offense.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 6-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-04-18 - Referred to Elections [SB1950 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-SB1950-Comm_Sub.html



	By: Bettencourt	S.B. No. 1950
	(In the Senate - Filed March 8, 2023; March 20, 2023, read
	first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
	April 4, 2023, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 8,
	Nays 2; April 4, 2023, sent to printer.)
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	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT

	relating to accepting an early voting ballot voted by mail;
	creating a criminal offense.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 87, Election Code, is
	amended by adding Section 87.0412 to read as follows:
	Sec. 87.0412. SUSPENSION OF ACCEPTING VOTER REQUIREMENTS
	PROHIBITED. (a) A county clerk, elections administrator, early
	voting clerk, or early voting ballot board may not suspend the
	requirements under Section 87.041(b).
	(b) A county clerk, elections administrator, or early
	voting clerk who violates this section commits an offense. An
	offense under this section is a Class A misdemeanor.
	SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only
	to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this Act.
	An offense committed before the effective date of this Act is
	governed by the law in effect on the date the offense was committed,
	and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. For
	purposes of this section, an offense was committed before the
	effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurred
	before that date.
	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.

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