Bill Text: TX SB2463 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to the procedure for early voting.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-23 - Referred to State Affairs [SB2463 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-SB2463-Introduced.html
  88R7233 MLH-D
 
  By: Hall S.B. No. 2463
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the procedure for early voting.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 61.002(c), Election Code, is amended to
  read as follows:
         (c)  Immediately after closing the polls for voting on
  election day and on the last day of early voting by personal
  appearance, the presiding election judge or alternate election
  judge shall print the tape to show the number of votes cast for each
  candidate or ballot measure for each voting machine.
         SECTION 2.  Sections 85.001(a) and (c), Election Code, are
  amended to read as follows:
         (a)  The period for early voting by personal appearance
  begins on the eighth [17th] day before election day and continues
  through the [fourth] day before election day, except as otherwise
  provided by this section.
         (c)  If the date prescribed by Subsection (a) [or (b)] for
  beginning the period is a Saturday, Sunday, or legal state holiday,
  the early voting period begins on the next regular business day.
         SECTION 3.  Section 85.033, Election Code, is amended to
  read as follows:
         Sec. 85.033.  SECURITY OF VOTING MACHINE. (a) At the close
  of early voting each day, the early voting clerk shall secure each
  voting machine used for early voting in the manner prescribed by the
  secretary of state so that its unauthorized operation is prevented.
  The clerk shall unsecure the machine before the beginning of early
  voting the following day.
         (b)  To the extent possible, closing and securing of voting
  machines shall be done in the same manner as required by provisions
  of this code pertaining to election day.
         SECTION 4.  Sections 85.001(b) and (e), Election Code, are
  repealed.
         SECTION 5.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.
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